Leslie Baruch Brent

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Leslie Baruch Brent (* July 5, 1925 in Köslin as Lothar Baruch ; † December 21, 2019 ) was a German-born British immunologist and zoologist .

Life

Leslie Baruch Brent was born in 1925 to a Jewish family in Köslin in Western Pomerania . His father worked as a traveling salesman for large companies. Because of the increasing discrimination against Jews after 1933, his parents sent him to the Jewish orphanage in Berlin-Pankow in 1936 , which was run by an acquaintance of his parents, the educator Kurt Crohn . When the situation of the Jews deteriorated dramatically after the November pogroms in 1938, Kurt Crohn sent Brent on the first Kindertransport to England on December 1, 1938 . Shortly before his departure, he met his parents and his sister for the last time, who were murdered near Riga on October 29, 1942 .

After his arrival in England, Brent attended a boarding school, the Bunce Court School in Kent until early 1942 , which was headed by the reform pedagogue Anna Essinger . Then he prepared for the course. After the government ordered the incorporation of trustworthy enemy aliens into the British Army in late 1943 , he began training as an infantry officer, which he completed in February 1945. During his army service he dropped his maiden name and chose the name Leslie Brent . In memory of his parents, he later added the name Baruch .

A scholarship enabled him to study zoology at the University of Birmingham after the end of World War II . In 1951 he joined as a graduate student at the University of London in the research group of Peter Medawar . There he was with Medawar and Rupert Billingham instrumental in the work on acquired immunological tolerance (English acquired immunological tolerance involved). After Medawar received the Nobel Prize in 1960, Medawar sent him part of the prize money. From 1965 to 1969 he was a professor at the University of Southampton and then until 1990 professor of immunology at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, which was part of the University of London.

He was a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA) and an honorary member of the British Society of Immunology.

His memoirs, published in Great Britain in 2009, were published in 2010 with the support of the Cajewitz Foundation under the title A Sunday Child? - From Jewish orphanage to world-famous immunologist also published in Germany.

Stolpersteine ​​were laid in Berlin for his parents Arthur and Charlotte Baruch and his sister Eva Susanne Baruch .

Fonts (selection)

  • Actively acquired tolerance of foreign cells: RE Billingham, L. Brent, PB Medawar . In: Nature . tape 172 , 1953, pp. 603-606 , doi : 10.1038 / 172603a0 .
  • RE Billingham, L. Brent, PB Medawar: Quantitative studies on tissue transplantation immunity. II. The origin, strength and duration of actively and adoptively acquired immunity . In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences . tape 143 , no. 910 , 1954, pp. 58-80 , doi : 10.1098 / rspb.1954.0054 .
  • RE Billingham, L. Brent, PB Medawar: Quantitative studies on tissue transplantation immunity. III. Actively acquired tolerance . In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences . tape 239 , no. 666 , 1956, pp. 357-414 , doi : 10.1098 / rstb.1956.0006 .
  • Leslie Brent: A History of Transplantation Immunology . 1st edition. Academic Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-12-131770-6 , pp. 482 .
  • Leslie Baruch Brent: Sunday's Child: A Memoir . Bank House Books, 2009, ISBN 978-1-904408-44-4 , pp. 308 .

literature

  • Margarethe Wohlan: Leslie Baruch Brent. The story of a German Jew. Deutschlandfunk Kultur, November 9, 2011, accessed December 8, 2018 .
  • Nicola Siegmund-Schultze: Leslie Baruch Brent: Fled from Germany 75 years ago . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . tape 110 , no. 48 , 2013, p. A 2329 ( online [accessed December 8, 2018]).
  • Ute Höschele: They were orphans before they lost their parents. The Jewish orphanage in Pankow as a place of refuge, security and expulsion . In: DAVID - Jewish culture magazine . No. 80 , 2009 ( online [accessed December 8, 2018]).

Web links

Leslie Baruch Brent obituary. In: The Guardian. January 2, 2020, accessed February 25, 2020 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honorary Members. British Society of Immunology, accessed December 8, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Leslie Baruch Brent: A Sunday Child? - From a Jewish orphanage to a world-famous immunologist . 1st edition. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8305-2505-9 , pp. 360 .
  3. ^ Stumbling blocks in Berlin: Eva Susanne Baruch. Coordination Office Stolpersteine ​​Berlin, accessed on December 6, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Brent, Leslie Baruch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baruch, Lothar (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British immunologist and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Koslin
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 2019