Arthur Kahn

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Arthur Kahn (born September 5, 1850 in Bingen ; died July 16, 1928 in Berlin ) was a German doctor and writer .

Life

Arthur Kahn studied medicine in Bonn and received his doctorate in Berlin in 1886 with the doctorate De la struma ossea . He married Hedwig Schmuhl and they had three children. One son was Fritz Kahn , born in Halle (Saale) in 1888 , who also became a doctor and writer. Kahn moved to the USA, established himself as a doctor in Hoboken , New Jersey, and brought his wife and children to join him in 1893. He took part in the cultural life of the Jewish community in Hoboken and Manhattan and provided the first Heinrich Heine monument in the USA. In 1895 Hedwig Kahn first returned to Germany with her three sons, the family then lived together again in Bonn, where Kahn opened Kahn 's sanatorium - Haus Victoria in Poppelsdorf . At this time he also invented devices that were patented, such as a massage device with a doctor roller . He eventually moved to Berlin. He was involved in welfare for the deaf and dumb .

Kahn campaigned for the cultural and social concerns of the Jews in the German Reich and called for Der Judentag! the establishment of an annual Jewish congress. Kahn collected and processed ghetto stories , especially from the small Jewish communities on the Rhine, which he published in magazines such as Jüdische Presse and Der Israelit . He edited several collections of stories.

Works (selection)

  • De la struma ossea . Dissertation Berlin. Berlin: G. Schade (O. Francke), 1886
  • The Jewish day! 1900
  • Disappearing figures. Stories from the Rhenish community and family life . Berlin: Itzkowski, 1904
  • Damon and Phintias in the Judengasse . Frankfurt am Main: Verl. D. Israelite, 1907
  • Sabbath moods . Frankfurt am Main: Jüdischer Volksschriftenverlag, 1909
  • Jewish village stories . Berlin: M. Poppelauer, 1910
  • Towards the clod . Berlin: Itzkowski, around 1915
  • Hisaurari! Watch my people! Berlin: Itzkowski, 1915
  • The way to true emancipation . Berlin: Itzkowski, 1915

literature

  • Arthur Kahn , in: Gabriele von Glasenapp , Hans Otto Horch : Ghettoliteratur. A documentation on the German-Jewish literary history of the 19th and early 20th centuries . Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2005, pp. 914-920
  • Nikola Raegener: His motto: Always ready to help in secrecy , report on a lecture by Leah Rauhut-Brungs, in: Generalanzeiger Bonn, November 14, 2013
  • Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Kraus Reprint, Nendeln 1979, ISBN 3-262-01204-1 (reprint of the Czernowitz 1925 edition) Volume 7, p. 143

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Place of birth Bingen in Generalanzeiger Bonn, 2013. Gabriele von Glasenapp, 2005, gives Groß-Gerau .
personal data
SURNAME Kahn, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Bingen
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1928
Place of death Berlin