Brücke with a noble title--von Brücke--but he rarely used it.

Ernst Fleischl von Marxow (1846-1891) and Joseph Paneth (1857-1890), two colleagues of Freud, were assistants to Brücke in Vienna; however, Brücke is most noted for his influence on Sigmund Freud, one of his other medical students. Freud began studying under Brücke in 1877 and continued doing so until 1883. He was tasked to examine the biology