Dawid Flamm

Dawid Flamm (* 1793 in Kalisch ; † November 12, 1876 in Hamburg ) was a famous Polish gynecologist of the 19th century.

Flamm, offspring of a wealthy Jewish merchant family, studied at the universities in Breslau and Berlin , where he finished his medical studies in 1818. He ran a medical practice in his hometown of Kalisch until 1833 and then went to Warsaw , where he worked as a gynecologist. Dawid Flamm was the first doctor in Congress Poland to induce birth by caesarean section . He was known and loved in the Polish capital for caring for the poor for free. In 1845 Flamm went with his wife Sophie nee. Josephij about the evangelical faith. For decades he was an active member of the Warsaw Medical Association , to which he bequeathed his extensive book collection. In 1862 the Flamms moved to Hamburg , where Dawid had a gynecological practice and, as in Warsaw, treated the poor for free. The Flamm couple were buried in the Evangelical Cemetery in Warsaw (avenue 54, number 9). The Flamms were close friends with the Chopin family, Frédéric often visited them in Kalisch on his trips to the Silesian baths or to Antonin to see Prince Anton Radziwiłł .

Dawid's only son Filip (* 1828 in Kalisch; † 1895 in Warsaw) was an excellent lawyer , well versed in civil and commercial law . Practicing as a lawyer in Warsaw since 1850 , he was appointed defense counsel at the Senate Court in 1872. In 1842, three years before his parents, he converted to the Protestant faith. Filip was buried next to his parents.

literature

• Eugeniusz Szulc: Cmentarz Ewangelicko-Augsburski w Warszawie. Zmarli i i Rodziny . Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Warsaw 1989, ISBN 83-06-01606-8 , ( Biblioteka Syrenki ).