Arthur Blumenthal

Arthur Blumenthal (born June 12, 1874 in Stuttgart ; † May 23, 1939 there ) was a German gynecologist .

Blumenthal as a student

Tomb in the Prague cemetery in Stuttgart

Life

Blumenthal passed the Abitur in Stuttgart in 1892. From the winter semester 1892/93 to 1897/98 he studied at Tübingen Eberhard Karls University of Medicine . Here he joined the student union Landsmannschaft Scotland , of which he was a member until the end of his life. In June 1898, he received his license to practice medicine and doctorate with the thesis about the effects of related chemicals on the striated muscle to Dr. med.

Initially, Blumenthal worked at the Marienhospital in Stuttgart as a specialist in gynecology and obstetrics . Later he became the chief physician of the gynecological department in the Marienhospital. At the beginning of 1904 he settled in Stuttgart as an independent gynecologist.

family

Blumenthal's parents were of Jewish descent. His first marriage was to Bertha Weil. The son Rudolf Blumenthal (1903) comes from this marriage. In his second marriage, Blumenthal was married to Johanna Hirth, daughter of the inventor and industrialist Albert Hirth . In 1914 their children Erika and Erik were born as twins. Arthur and Johanna Blumenthal separated before the outbreak of World War II .

literature

• Heinrich Münzenmaier (Ed.): History of the Scottish Landsmannschaft zu Tübingen 1849 to 1924 .
• Martin Biastoch : Tübingen students in the German Empire. A socio-historical investigation. (= Contubernium - Tübingen Contributions to the History of Science. Volume 44). Sigmaringen 1996, ISBN 3-515-08022-8 , p. 224.
• Susanne Rueß: Stuttgart Jewish doctors during the National Socialism. Königshausen & Neumann, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-8260-4254-6 , p. 52 f.