Walter Rudolf Kirschbaum

Walter Rudolf Kirschbaum (born April 26, 1894 in Duisburg ; † August 15, 1982 ) was a German-American neurologist and psychiatrist . Because of his Jewish origins, he had to emigrate.

Life

Stumbling blocks in front of the entrance to the main building O 10 of the Hamburg University Hospital, including a stumbling block for Walter Rudolf Kirschbaum

Kirschbaum obtained his doctorate in Berlin in 1919. He became an assistant in the Hamburg State Hospital Friedrichsberg . As a private lecturer , he taught psychiatry at the University of Hamburg in 1933 , and in March 1935 his teaching license was revoked. In November 1933 he had signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . In the years 1938–39 he was imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . In 1939 he was able to emigrate to England and then to the USA. In 1948 he became an assistant professor at the University of Chicago , and in 1958 an associate professor . In 1964 he retired. In 1968 he wrote about Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease .

Fonts

• Jakob-Creutzfeldt Disease , New York 1968.

literature

• Jürgen Peiffer: Brain research in Germany 1849 to 1974: Letters on the development of psychiatry and neurosciences as well as on the influence of the political environment on scientists . Springer, 2004, p. 1087
• Biographical Directory of Fellows and Members of the American Psychiatric Association . New York: RR Bowker Co., 1950, p. 418