Alfred W. Kneucker

Alfred Walter Kneucker (born July 30, 1904 in Vienna ; † January 12, 1960 there ), also known under the pseudonyms Alf Riston, Aweka, AWK and Walt Chining, was an Austrian doctor and writer.

Life

Kneucker came from a middle-class Jewish family, he was critical of the Catholic corporate state and emigrated in March 1938. He was exiled in Sweden and England. After Alfred Walter Kneucker received an offer from the Quakers as a professor in the Republic of China , he was interned on the crossing in Indochina . He found refuge in the open city of Shanghai . He had a medical practice in Shanghai, but left for the USA in 1948 . In 1955 he became a professor of surgery at the Chicago Medical School.

Works

Guidelines of a philosophy of medicine . W. Maudrich, Vienna 1949
Thinking in medicine . Dustri-Verlag, Remscheid-Lennep 1958
Refuge in Shanghai. From the experiences of an Austrian doctor who was emigrating from 1938 to 1945. Edited and edited by Felix Gamillscheg. Afterword by Kurt Rudolf Fischer . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 1984. ISBN 3-205-07241-3 .

literature

Helmut Eckelsberger: The indexing of the estate of Alfred W. Kneucker in the Austrian Literature Archive of the Austrian National Library . Term paper to become a teacher for German as a major, University of Vienna 1997 (available at the Austrian Literature Archive).

Web links

Alfred W. Kneucker in the literary archive of the Austrian National Library
Literature by and about Alfred W. Kneucker in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Austrian literature archive : Alfred W. Kneucker NB - ÖLA - inventory - A. Kneucker. Retrieved May 14, 2020 .

↑ Herwig Czech, Wolfgang Neugebauer, Peter Schwarz: The war against the inferior. On the history of Nazi medicine in Vienna . Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-901142-73-4 , p. 45 .

personal data
SURNAME	Kneucker, Alfred W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kneucker, Alfred Walter (full name); Riston, Alf (pseudonym); Aweka (pseudonym); AWK (pseudonym); Chining, Walt (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian doctor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 30, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	January 12, 1960
Place of death	Vienna

[ÖLA-1] Austrian literature archive : Alfred W. Kneucker NB - ÖLA - inventory - A. Kneucker. Retrieved May 14, 2020 .

[2] Herwig Czech, Wolfgang Neugebauer, Peter Schwarz: The war against the inferior. On the history of Nazi medicine in Vienna . Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-901142-73-4 , p. 45 .