Rudolf Altschul

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Rudolf Altschul , FRSC (born February 24, 1901 in Prague , Austria-Hungary ; died November 4, 1963 in Saskatoon , Canada ) was a German-speaking Czechoslovakian anatomist , psychiatrist and man of letters.

Life

Altschul's father Emanuel was a sales representative; his mother died in 1918. Altschul attended elementary school in Karolinenthal, which was later incorporated by the municipality of Prague, from 1907 and the K. k. from 1911 . German state secondary school , where he made friends with Hans Klaus .

With Konstantin Ahne and Hans Klaus Altschul formed the literary group Protest , which published short-lived magazines in several attempts between 1919 and 1923 and organized readings for which they wrote the necessary texts themselves. Altschul published the story Die Geretteten in her magazine Avalun in 1921 .

Altschul studied medicine at the Karl Ferdinand University . After receiving his doctorate in 1925, he continued his education in 1925/26 at the Salpêtrière in Paris and from 1926 to 1929 went to Rome to study neurology at the Policlinico Umberto I at the University of La Sapienza . He married Anna Fischer from Prague in 1928. From 1929 Altschul was research assistant with Alfred Kohn at the Histological Institute of the German University in Prague and had a private psychiatric practice. He remained in this position until the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939. He and his wife Anna separated to flee and in April he fled to Rome to his previous job. At the end of August he reached England, where he met his wife again and she embarked on September 2, 1939 in Liverpool on the Athenia to go to Canada. Both survived the sinking of the ship the following day by a German submarine. In October they repeated the Atlantic crossing, this time to the neutral USA, and from there they got to Saskatoon , where Altschul had been promised a position at the university clinic.

His sister Wilma and his brother Franz were victims of the Holocaust , his sister Irma was imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto and survived the persecution. After the war she emigrated from Czechoslovakia to live with her brother in Canada.

From 1939 to 1963 Altschul was employed at the University of Saskatchewan , from 1948 as a full professor and from 1955 as head of the department. He wrote papers in the fields of histology, neurology and arteriosclerosis . He became a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the American Association of Anatomists , President of the Canadian Association of Anatomists, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada , FRSC.

In addition to these professional obligations, Altschul continued to be literary. Hartmut Binder found literary works in his estate, some of which Altschul wrote in English and translated from English into German; they remained unfinished and unpublished.

Fonts

  • Selected studies on arteriosclerosis . Springfield, Ill .: Charles C. Thomas 1950
  • (Ed.): Niacin in vascular disorders and hyperlipemia . Springfield, Ill., Thomas 1964
  • About strange accompanying symptoms of a brain chinococcus . From the Clinic for Nervous and Mental Diseases of the Royal University of Rome. in: European Neurology, 1927, pp. 325-341
  • Journal articles

literature

  • Hartmut Binder (Ed.): Prague Profiles: Forgotten Authors in the Shadow of Kafka . Berlin: Mann 1991. In it: Hartmut Binder: The lost generation. Hans Klaus and his circle , pp. 97-252.
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 29 (No. 207).
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Eds.), International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol II, 2 Munich: Saur 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 23f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Binder: The lost generation. Hans Klaus and his circle , 1991, pp. 132-135
  2. ↑ Hartmut Binder: The lost generation. Hans Klaus and his circle , 1991, pp. 137-225 passim
  3. ↑ Hartmut Binder: The lost generation. Hans Klaus and his circle , 1991, pp. 193–197
  4. ↑ Die Geretteten (1921), printed by Hartmut Binder: The lost generation. Hans Klaus and his circle , 1991, pp. 242–246
  5. ↑ a b c d e Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.), International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol II, 2 Munich: Saur 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 23
  6. ↑ a b c Hartmut Binder: The lost generation. Hans Klaus and his circle , 1991, pp. 225-227
personal data
SURNAME Altschul, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-speaking Czechoslovak-Canadian medic and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 4th November 1963
Place of death Saskatoon , Canada