Adolf Heilborn

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Adolf Heilborn (born January 11, 1873 in Berlin , † October 16, 1941 in Berlin) was a German doctor , writer and translator .

Life

Adolf Heilborn, painted by Erich Büttner (1928)
Bookplate Adolf Heilborn. Lithograph by Heinrich Zille

Adolf Heilborn was born the son of the businessman Raphael Juda (Rudolph) Heilborn and his wife Clara Maria Luise, née Körbitz, on Potsdamer Strasse in Berlin. Adolf Heilborn's sister was the then well-known screenwriter and dramaturge Luise Heilborn-Körbitz . He attended the Kölln high school in Berlin and studied medicine and natural sciences from 1893 to 1897 and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. Even as a high school student he published articles in the Vossische Zeitung . He went on a world tour as a ship's doctor and then settled down as a doctor, editor and translator in Berlin and carried out extensive publishing and lecturing activities and was editor and editor of the magazine Die Gegenwart . On October 9, 1917, he married Margarete Auth, née Fiedler, in Berlin. He was a lecturer at Urania and had a teaching position at the German Colonial Society . He participated in the First World War as a military doctor. Among other things, he translated Daudet's letters from my mill and novellas and dramas by Maupassant . His popular scientific writings on biology, anthropology and cultural-historical issues have been translated into several languages. For his teacher Ernst Haeckel and the monistic worldview, he campaigned with publications and lectures. Dr. Adolf Heilborn was friends with Käthe Kollwitz and Heinrich Zille ; Heinrich Zille designed an ex-libris for his friend . From 1933 he was particularly interested in tuberculosis research. According to the circular issued by the Reich Minister of the Interior on November 26, 1935, Adolf Heilborn was considered a “first degree half-breed” (people with two Jewish grandparents, also known as “half-Jews”) according to National Socialist terminology. From 1935 onwards, the "Jewish half-breeds" were closed to all professions that required membership in the Reich Chamber of Culture. Kurt Pomplun writes in the foreword to the new edition Reise nach Berlin that Adolf Heilborn was banned from writing.

He died on October 16, 1941 in the Sankt Gertrauden Hospital in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. The death certificate does not indicate the cause of death that he voluntarily passed away. In the memorial book of the suicide is indicated as a cause of death, however. Heilborn found his final resting place in the Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof Stahnsdorf .

Works (in selection)

  • General ethnology in a nutshell . Shepherd, Leipzig 1898.
  • The German colonies (country and people) . Ten lectures. Teubner, Leipzig 1906. Digitized
  • Human development history . 4 lectures. Teubner, Leipzig 1914.
  • Ernst Haeckel's learning tragedy . Based on unpublished letters and notes by Haeckel . Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg / Berlin 1920.
  • The evolution of mankind and the emergence of culture. Bong, Berlin 1920.
  • The trip to Berlin . With drawings by Wilhelm Plünnecke. Edited by d. Berliner Morgenpost. Berlin: Ullsteinhaus 1921. New edition 1925 in the Rembrandt-Verlag Berlin Zehlendorf, with drawings by Walter Wellenstein and many photos from old Berlin. New edition 1966, with an introduction and additions by Kurt Pomplun. New edition 2013 by Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, vbb, 13189 Berlin ISBN 978-3-942476-87-4 .
  • Wild animals that our youth should know . Bong, Berlin 1921. 347 pages, 4 colorful supplements, 39 text images. ( Digitized version )
  • The journey through the room . Ullstein, Berlin 1924
  • The draftsmen of the people, Käthe Kollwitz, Heinrich Zille . Rembrandt publishing house, Berlin-Zehlendorf 1924
  • Woman and man. A study on the natural and cultural history of women . Ullstein, Berlin 1924. Digitized
  • Darwin. His life and his teaching . Ullstein, Berlin 1927. Digitized
  • Carnivorous Plants. Brehm, Berlin 1930.
  • The Frog. Brehm, Berlin 1930.
  • Becoming and passing away. A natural history of life . Neufeld & Henius, Berlin 1931.
  • Käthe Kollwitz . Rembrandt-Verlag, Berlin 1931 (5th - 8th thousand), 1940 (9th - 10th thousand)
  • What woods and meadows tell. Herbig, Berlin 1948.
  • The stickleback. Geest & Portig, Leipzig 1949.
  • Animal love games. Geest & Portig, Leipzig 1952.
  • Among the savages. Good Press 2020. ( digitized version )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jutta Bohnke - Kollwitz: Käthe Kollwitz. The diaries . Siedler, Berlin 1989.
personal data
SURNAME Heilborn, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1941
Place of death Berlin