Emil Klein (doctor)

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Friedrich Emil Klein (born March 7, 1873 in Reichenberg , Austria-Hungary , † May 21, 1950 in Weimar ) was an Austrian internist and one of the founders of scientific research into natural healing methods .

Life

Klein completed a medical degree , which he completed in 1898 at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague with a doctorate . He then worked as a secondary doctor at the Clinic for Internal Medicine headed by Rudolf von Jaksch . From 1900 he was among Ernst Schweninger , the personal physician of Otto von Bismarck as an assistant physician at the Berlin Charité operates. As early as 1902 he became senior physician at the polyclinic of the Berlin Doctors' Association , where from 1907 he headed the field of physical-dietary therapy - from 1909 as a professor. He also worked as a kuk embassy doctor and consular doctor in Berlin . From 1923 to 1933 he taught as a professor at the University of Jena . There he received the first professorship for naturopathic treatment at a German university. After the National Socialists came to power , Klein had to leave the university due to his Jewish origins and then worked as a doctor.

Emil Klein was married to Rahel Antonie, née Salomon. The couple had three children.

Klein was deported with his wife to the Theresienstadt ghetto , where he arrived on July 23, 1942. There he was considered a so-called "celebrity". At the beginning of May 1945, Klein was liberated in Theresienstadt by the Red Army . His wife did not survive her imprisonment in Theresienstadt. Klein then lived in Jena , where he held another medical course on naturopathy in the winter semester of 1947. Klein died in Weimar in 1950 and was later buried in the Jewish cemetery in Erfurt .

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