Samuel Last

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Samuel Leopold Last (born February 16, 1902 in Brăila , Romania, † June 13, 1991 ) was an Austrian neurologist .

Life and activity

Last came from a Jewish family. His father was an Austrian citizen, his mother, the daughter of Russian immigrants, had been educated in France. Interned after the outbreak of the First World War, the family finally emigrated to Berlin. Samuel Last passed his school leaving examination in March 1921. He then studied medicine in Heidelberg , Vienna , Paris and Berlin . In 1928 he was awarded a doctorate degree in Berlin with a thesis on syphilitic pupillary disorder. med. PhD. In the following years Last was employed as an intern and volunteer at the 2nd Medical University Clinic of the Berlin Charité. On December 1, 1929, he was appointed as a scheduled assistant doctor in the Bonn mental hospital .

Shortly after the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Last was given leave of absence from the Bonn mental hospital in February 1933. On March 16, 1933 he asked for his discharge - prompted by the management of the clinic. As a result, he left the mental hospital on June 30, 1933. He then emigrated to Great Britain, where he passed the English medical exam at the Royal College Edinburgh in October 1934 .

In 1935, Last received a position at the Cardiff Municipal Asylum for the Mentally Ill . In 1936 he moved to an assistant position in a similar institution in Northampton . From 1937 to 1939, Last was first assistant and then until 1951 as senior physician at Runwell Mental Hospital in Wickford .

In Germany, meanwhile, Last was classified as an enemy of the state by the National Socialist police forces. In the spring of 1940 he was placed on the special wanted list by the Reich Main Security Office , a directory of people who, in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht, were to be located and arrested by special SS units that followed the occupying forces.

In 1951, Last became senior physician at St. John's Hospital in Stone, Buckinghamshire . In 1953 he moved to London Hospital as a department head , where he stayed until his retirement. In Germany, Last was appointed adjunct professor in 1956 as part of reparations .

Fonts

  • The early diagnosis of syphilitic pupillary disorder with the Hess differential pupilloscope. 1928 (dissertation).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Walter Schmuhl : The Society of German Neurologists and Psychiatrists in National Socialism. Springer, Berlin 2016, p. 141, fn. 27 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ↑ Entry on Last on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .
personal data
SURNAME Last, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Last, Samuel Leopold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Brăila , Romania
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1991