Heinrich Embden

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Heinrich Georg Embden (born March 19, 1871 in Hamburg , † April 3, 1941 in São Paulo ) was a German neurologist .

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Heinrich Embden was a son of the lawyer and politician George Heinrich Embden and his wife Elisabeth Charlotte (1851-1910). He received a school education at the Wilhelm Gymnasium in Hamburg , where he graduated from high school in 1889. He then studied medicine at the University of Strasbourg and the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . His doctorate in medicine in September 1893 was followed by a license to practice medicine on December 23 of the same year.

After he had completed his military service, Embden went to the General Hospital Eppendorf as an assistant doctor on April 1, 1895 . Max Nun trained him there until May 28, 1897 as a neurologist. From July 1, 1897, Embden practiced as a resident specialist for nervous and mental diseases in Hamburg. On June 1, 1898, he was appointed chief physician of the polyclinical department for nervous diseases and electrotherapy at the Israelite Hospital . In 1903 Embden married Gertrud Ida, née Küchler. The couple had four children.

During the First World War , Embden did military service from August 2, 1914 to December 7, 1918. From 1925 and 1931 he was involved in the library commission of the Medical Association Hamburg and in 1925 he was chairman of the Society of Neurologists and Psychiatrists in Greater Hamburg . He also ran the counseling center for young psychopaths in Hamburg.

Since his father was Jewish and his mother was non-Jewish, the National Socialists classified Embden as a “quarter Jew”. On the basis of the fourth ordinance on the Reich Citizenship Act of July 25, 1938, Embden had to give up his license to practice medicine on September 1 of the same year. A month later he received the revocable permission to continue to only care for Jewish patients. For this reason, Embden left the German Reich on December 30, 1938 for Brazil , where he died on April 3, 1941.

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SURNAME Embden, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Embden, Heinrich Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1941
Place of death São Paulo