After leaving the army, he returned to Leipzig, where he opened a private practice and worked as an assistant to neurologist Adolph Strümpell (1853-1925) at the university policlinic.

This results in the patient having a masklike facial expression along with many other abnormalities such as drooling, crossed eyes, speech difficulties and problems swallowing.

Other eponyms associated with Möbius are: Today his most historically significant contribution to science is his work on the psychogenics of psychiatric and mental illnesses, such as hysteria.

For this reason and because of his convincing arguments for the therapeutical effects of electrotherapy, Sigmund Freud referred to Möbius as one of the fathers of psychotherapy.

In the long term Möbius thus paved to way for eugenics and the crimes of German Nazism against the psychiatrically and neurologically diseased.

Elberskirchen said: "The truth is that when scholars make opinions concerning females, they are too much man (Mann) and too little or not at all scientifically reasoning human (Mensch)."

Einer seiner Enkel, Paul Julius Möbius, Nervenarzt und Privatdozent in Leipzig, His marriage to Dorothea Rothe produced three children.