Hans-Alfred Rosenthal
Hans-Alfred Rosenthal (born August 22, 1924 in Berlin ; † April 20, 2009 ) was a German virologist and until 1989 director of the Institute for Virology at the Charité in Berlin.
Life
Hans-Alfred Rosenthal was born in Berlin in 1924 and had to work as a forced laborer at Ehrich & Graetz during the Second World War . After the end of the war he studied biology . In 1965 he received his doctorate on a virological topic at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he also received his habilitation ten years later . In the following years he worked until his retirement in 1989 as a professor at the Humboldt University and as director of the Institute for Virology at the Berlin Charité .
He was married to the geneticist Sinaida Rosenthal and died in 2009. One of his two sons is the genome researcher André Rosenthal .
literature
- Hans-Alfred Rosenthal. In: Aubrey Pomerance: Jewish forced laborers at Ehrich & Graetz, Berlin-Treptow. Jewish Museum Berlin and DuMont Buchverlag , Berlin and Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-83-217839-2 , p. 230
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rosenthal, Hans-Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German virologist and institute director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 2009 |