Max Rothmann (April 26, 1868 – August 12, 1915) was a German neuroanatomist and physiologist who was a native of Berlin.

In 1891 he worked in Carl Weigert's laboratory, then he was an assistant to Albert Fraenkel in Krankenhaus am Urban.

Rothmann was the catalyst concerning the establishment of an anthropological research station in the Canary Islands, which was subsequently founded at Orotava, Tenerife in 1913 with Eugen Teuber (1889-1958) as its first director.

[2] Obituaries were written by Louis Jacobsohn-Lask (1863-1940),[3] Hermann Oppenheim,[4] Hugo Liepmann[5] and Smith Ely Jelliffe.

[8] Hans (1899–1970) studied medicine and continued some of neuroanatomical works of his father; he emigrated to USA.