Richard Hamburger

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Richard Hamburger (born August 6, 1884 in Warsaw , † July 31, 1940 in London ) was a German pediatrician .

Life and activity

Hamburger was the son of a businessman. One of his cousins ​​was the physician Casimir Funk , who invented the term vitamin and introduced it into scientific terminology.

After attending school in Berlin, Hamburg studied medicine at the universities of Berlin and Rostock. In 1912 he received his doctorate. med. In the same year he received his medical license. He then worked as an assistant doctor at the University Children's Clinic at the Berlin Charité , where he deepened his training under Adalbert Czerny . His lifelong specialties were infant and child nutrition and rickets .

From 1914 to 1918 Hamburger took part in the First World War. In 1923 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer. In 1928 he was appointed associate professor. He also ran a pediatric practice at Lietzenburgerstrasse 8a in Berlin.

After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Hamburger was ousted from the civil service. In April 1933 he moved to Great Britain. His family followed him in November 1933. In Germany, meanwhile, on November 21, 1933, his teaching license was revoked in accordance with the provisions of the Law for the Restoration of the Civil Service .

Since Hamburger, with his German degree, was unable to practice medicine in Great Britain, he first went to Edinburgh, where he familiarized himself with the British health system and prepared to take the necessary exams to obtain the British medical license. After passing this in 1934, he received the British medical license.

From Edinburgh, Hamburger went to London, where he opened a pediatrician practice at 11 Upper Wimpole Street in St. John's Wood, London, which he ran until his death in 1940. The clientele mainly comprised emigrants. He also worked as a medical consultant at the London Jewish Swanley Children's Hospital.

Hamburger died of Hodgin's disease.

family

Hamburger was married to Lilli, geb. Hamburg [sic!] (1887–1980), who came from a Polish banking family. The marriage produced four children, including Michael Hamburger , who became known as a poet and literary critic, and the publicist Paul Bertrand Hamlyn (who changed his surname during his school days).

Fonts

  • On cases of rhinorrhoea cerebralis with atrophy of the optic nerve and on the causes of this complex of symptoms , 1912. (Dissertation)

literature

  • Eduard Seidler: Jewish Pediatricians. Victims of Persecution 1933-1945 , pp. 157f. (with photo) ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • German Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 4 (Görres-Hittorp), Munich 2006, p. 396.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Enrollment of Richard Hamburger in the matriculation portal of the University of Rostock
personal data
SURNAME Hamburger, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician (pediatrician)
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1940
Place of death London