Aranka Boehm

Aranka Böhm , married Aranka Karinthyné Böhm (born July 17, 1893 in Ipolyság , Austria-Hungary ; died 1944 in Auschwitz ) was a Hungarian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst . She was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp .

Life

Aranka Böhm was born as the daughter of the Jewish merchant couple Ignác Böhm and Hermina Mangold Böhm, she had a brother named Tibor. In 1913 she began to study medicine at the Royal Hungarian University in Budapest , which she interrupted in 1918 and only continued again in 1930. Her main interest was in psychoanalysis , which had developed in Hungary around the psychoanalyst Sandor Ferenczi .

From her first marriage with Tivadar Kertész (1889-1979), which lasted from 1914 to 1920, the son Tamás Kertész emerged. In 1920 she married the writer Frigyes Karinthy . In 1921 the son from this marriage, Ferenc Karinthy , was born, who also became a writer.

After Aranka Böhm had finished her medical studies, she earned her doctorate in 1932. Dr. med. and then completed specialist training in psychiatry and neurology at the Budapest Clinic for Psychiatry and Neurology. She worked as a psychiatrist in the mental hospital in Balassa Utcai and also carried out psychoanalytic treatments in private practice. She completed her psychoanalytic training in Budapest and Vienna . In 1936 she practiced in Vienna at the psychiatric-neurological clinic with Otto Pötzl , who was a member of the NSDAP .

After she returned to Hungary, she worked in the psychiatric hospital in Zalaegerszeg until she was deported by the Germans to Auschwitz in 1944 and murdered there.

literature

Borgos, Anna: "Az irodalom vetélytársa". Karinthyné Böhm Aranka. In: Elektronikus Periodika Archívum 17 (65), 2009, 253-270 (Hungarian).
László Kiss: A journey round my wife - - Mrs. Karinthy, Aranka Böhm , MD (1893-1944) . In: Orvosi hetilap 152 (28), 2011, 1137–1139 (Hungarian) online . Retrieved December 18, 2016.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c female psychoanalysts in Germany . Retrieved December 17, 2016.
^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 194 5th 2nd edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 467.

personal data
SURNAME	Bohm, Aranka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Karinthyné Böhm, Aranka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH	July 17, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ipolyság , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH	1944
Place of death	Auschwitz

[A-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c female psychoanalysts in Germany . Retrieved December 17, 2016.

[2] Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 194 5th 2nd edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 467.