Robert Hooper was MA and MB of Pembroke College, Oxford in 1804, and MD at St. Andrews, Aberdeen in 1803. He practised in Savile Row, London, and was the compiler of a Medical Dictionary first published in 1798 which ran into many editions.
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The authoress was the daughter of the Suffolk Antiquary, Henry Jermyn [1767-1820]. She married her cousin James Jermyn [ -1852], the philologist.
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Denis Gascoigne Lillie was born in 1888. He studied zoology at Birmingham University and at St. John's College, Cambridge, in the years 1903-1910. In 1910 he was appointed marine zoologist to the British Antarctic Expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912). He died in 1963.
John Lillie D.D. was the grandfather of the biologist Denis Gascoigne Lillie (b 1888).
Jean Nicolas Marjolin (1780-1850) was a surgeon and morbid anatomist who lectured at the Paris Faculté de Médécine.
René Marjolin (1812-1895), son of the surgeon Jean Nicolas Marjolin, served as surgeon to the children's hospital of Sainte Eugénie, Paris. During the siege of Paris and the Commune, 1870-1871, Marjolin was active in treating the wounded until he was arrested as a Bonapartist agent.
The author was a distinguished and indefatigable botanist and plant collector, who made extensive tours in Italy and Central Europe, and founded the Florence Botanical Society.
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Albert Poisson is described by Caillet, as 'savant alchimiste moderne, né et mort à Paris. Étudiant de médecine'. He wrote several works on Alchemy and translated some ancient alchemical texts. He used the pseudonym 'Philophotos'.
The author's name is given in the 'Préface Au Lecteur' in verse in the first volume: 'Isaac le Pharmacien' in line 23, and 'Quatroux' in line 41. The last line also gives the name of the Scribe, Maillet, 'qui pour Quatroux et plein de passion Son livre ayant escrit avec affection'. Quatroux is the author of a 'Traité de la peste', published in Paris in 1671.
Stated by the booksellers to have been written by Carmelo Recupero of Catania. No other information given on him.
Rodati is described in MS.4235 as 'Lettore di Patologia nella Pontificia Universita di Bologna'.
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Professor of Pathology and Surgery at Paris.
The two compilers of these MSS. are the same as those of MS. No. 210 (Consultationes], the later hand may be that of Pierre Rivallier [1644- ],a physician at Nîmes.
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Born, 1615; educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA, 1637, MA, 1640) and Merton College, Oxford (MD, 1646); Physician to Charles II, 1660-1683; Physician to James II and William and Mary; Member of Parliament for Camelford in Cornwall, 1685-1687; died, 1694.
Thomas Scattergood was a distinguished surgeon and physician of Leeds, and lectured on chemistry and forensic medicine at the Medical School. In 1884 he became the first Dean of the Medical Faculty when the Yorkshire College was amalgamated with the Medical School, a post which he retained for the rest of his life. [Cf. BMJ, 1900, i, p. 547].
Buxton Stilltoe graduated from University College Hospital Medical School, and became FRCS in 1860. He practised at Finsbury Circus, and was surgeon to the London Lock Hospital from 1887 to 1909 [cf BMJ 1917 (1), p. 33].
George Edward Shuttleworth received his medical education at King's College Hospital Medical School, and obtained his MD degree at Heidelberg in 1869. After a short period at Earlswood Asylum, he was appointed Superintendent of the Royal Albert Asylum at Lancaster in 1870, a post which he held for twenty-three years. On retirement in 1893, he devoted himself to the study of insanity, and was particularly interested in the problems of mentally-defective children and their treatment. His important work on that subject was published in 1895, and a fifth edition appeared in 1922. As consultant in London, he was active in the training of personnel for service with the care of these unfortunate children, and was responsible for important changes in the lunacy laws.
The author, who was an enthusiastic medical historian obtained his MD at Edinburgh in 1902, and practised in Sheffield. [Cf BMJ 1933, i. p. 939].
The author qualified MD at Trinity Medical College, Toronto in 1899. In 1905 he was with Manson-Bahr at the London School of Tropical Medicine. In the next year he went to Kuala Lumpur in Malaya and devoted himself to the study of beri-beri, and its relation to a rice diet. He proved that the 'polished' grain lacked certain components, and so caused this deficiency disease, and from this theory the idea of 'Vitamins' was later developed. He also did valuable research on mosquitoes. In 1920 he was Director of the Malaria Bureau, and received his KCMG in 1934 [cf. BMJ 1938, i, pp. 312, 313].
Peter Taylor was a chemist and pharmacist of 18 Park Road, London. These premises were demolished in 1964.
Gaetano Termanini was Professor of Surgery and Obstetrics at Bologna University.
At the end of Vol. V are three entries by the hand of the scribe of the MS. of the births of three children in 1817, 1818 and 1820. Antonio Alessandrini [1776-1861] was professor of comparative anatomy and veterinary pathology at Bologna University in 1819. G. A. Testa was Professor of Clinical Medicine at Bologna University.
Pierre Chirac was the most celebrated physician of his day; he obtained his MD at Montpellier in 1683, and by 1687 was Professor of Medicine. He was elected a Member of the Académie des Sciences in 1716, became head of the Jardin du Roi in 1718, and Physician to Louis XV in 1731.
The author obtained his MD at Durham University in 1895, and was Assistant Medical Officer at Chatham Lunatic Asylum. He practised at Leytonstone 1895-1902, and later at Balham. His name is not found in the Register after 1933. His theories on tuberculosis received a derogatory notice in the British Medical Journal 1907, i, p. 383.
Little is known about the author save for that which is contained in the letter itself, namely that Emmerich Menzner was a rank and file member of an SS cavalry regiment in an unidentified part of Poland in 1942, and that he hailed from Litzmannstadt (Lodz).
The Deutscher Fichte-Bund was a German, nationalist, antisemitic organisation, founded in Hamburg in 1914, the objective of which seemed to be the dissemination of propaganda both in Germany and abroad.
Born 1888; Lt in the 10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment; fought in the First World War; advocate of pacifism during the 1930s, attempted to mediate a truce in the Second World War by visiting the German legation in Dublin, leading to his name being placed on a list of persons to be arrested in the event of a German invasion. Patron of the British Peoples Party, an anti-war party that was accused of fascist sympathies; died 1953.
Dr Josef Fadenhecht was a Bulgarian Jewish teacher and lawyer.
In April 1933, Joyce Weiner was a young free-lance journalist who had recently spent two semesters as Hilfslektorin at the University of Leipzig. She had many friends in Leipzig and was, therefore, aware of the situation in which the Jewish population found itself. In view of this, she agreed to become the Honorary Secretary of the Hospitality Committee organised by the ladies of the B'nai Brith (in association with the main German Refugees Committee). At the committee she met many talented and distinguished refugees from Germany, the vanguard being professional people such as artists, writers, doctors and scientists. Amongst them was Frau Irma Sernau, a well-known fashion editor from Berlin. Because Joyce Weiner was able to render some service to friends of Frau Sernau, that lady desired to make some return. Her sister, Lola Sernau, was, at that time, private secretary to Leon Feuchtwanger, who was, in Sanary with other famous writers. Lola Sernau arranged for interviews with four of these writers, it being understood that these would be published in John O'London's Weekly, then a reputable and highly regarded literary paper of a popular nature. This was in the summer of 1933. Accordingly, Joyce Weiner had four fascinating conversations with, in turn, Feuchtwanger, Thomas and Heinrich Mann and Arnold Zweig. On her return to England, however, she received a letter from Lola Sernau asking her to stay her hand for the reasons stated in the letter and so the interviews were not published. In fact, for safety's sake they were not written. Irma Sernau went to and from Germany during this period, helping friends to emigrate. She managed to get to France just before the outbreak of war. There she took an active part in the resistance, escaping death many times but surviving and having an unexpected reunion with Joyce Weiner in the late 1950s. Lola Sernau had an honoured place among the exiled writers in Ascona, where eventually Irma died and is buried.
HMT Dunera was a British passenger ship built as a troop transport in the late 1930s. On 10 Jul 1940 The Duneraleft Liverpool with men classed as enemy aliens, who were considered a risk to British security. Although many of the internees had in fact fled Europe to escape Nazi persecution, they were considered to have been German agents, potentially helping to plan the invasion of Britain. Included were 2,036 Jewish refugees from Austria and Germany, 451 German and Italian prisoners of war and others including the survivors of the Arandora Star disaster. They were taken to Australia for internment in the rural towns of Hay, New South Wales and Tatura, Victoria Australia. The ship had a maximum capacity of 1,500 - including crew - however on this voyage there were 2,542 transportees. The resultant condition has been described as 'inhumane', the transportees were also subjected to ill-treatment and theft by the 309 poorly trained British guards on board. On arrival in Sydney, the first Australian on board was medical army officer Alan Frost. He was appalled and his subsequent report led to the court martial of the army officer-in-charge, Lieutenant-Colonel William Scott.
Herbert Goldsmith (formerly Goldschmidt), was one of the internees on the HMT Dunera and subsequently a detainee at 'Camp 8', Hay Internment camp for refugees, New South Wales, Australia.
Erwin Kallir, was the canteen manager at 'Camp 8', Hay Internment camp for refugees, New South Wales, Australia.
Possibly these reports were either commissioned by or came about as the result of the activities of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland.
The author of the report was a Jew who was imprisoned for 3 months in both Vienna and Prague without apparent reason until he managed to obtain travel permits to Bohemia and Moravia.
The author is a former Czech civil servant who fled with his wife from Czechoslovakia to England, via Katovice, Poland in 1939.
Gurs was a major internment camp in France, near Oloron-Sainte-Marie and 80 kilometers from the Spanish border. Established in 1939 to absorb Republican refugees from Spain, Gurs served later as a concentration camp for Jews from France and refugees from other countries. While under the administration of Vichy France (1940-1942) most non-Jewish prisoners were released and approximately 2000 Jews were permitted to emigrate. In 1941 Gurs held some 15,000 prisoners. The camp was controlled by the Germans from 1942 to 1944, during which time several thousand inmates were deported to extermination camps in Poland. An unknown number succeeded in escaping and reaching Spain or hiding in Southern France. Gurs was liberated in the summer of 1944.
The Jüdische Volkspartei was founded in August 1919 to represent and promote Jewish national interests in German communities. It therefore set itself apart from the liberal assimilationists of the Central Verein, the parties representing Jewish orthodoxy and the Zionist parties. A large part of its membership and leadership comprised eastern Jews.
Born 1907; member of the Nazi party, 1925; leader of the Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Studentenbund (NSDStB, National Socialist German Students' League), 1928; Reichsjugendführer (youth leader) in the Nazi party, 1931; head of the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend) and given an SA rank of Gruppenführer, 1933; state secretary, 1936; organized the evacuation of 5 million children from cities threatened by Allied bombing, 1940; joined the army and served in France, 1940; Governor of the Reichsgau, Vienna, 1940-1945, responsible for moving Jews from Vienna to concentration camps in Poland; found guilty, 1 Oct 1946, of 'crimes against humanity' for his deportation of the Viennese Jews. He was sentenced and served 20 years as a prisoner in Spandau Prison; released 1966; died 1974.
Ernst Cohn-Wiener was a Jewish German born in Tilsit (East Prusia), 1882; education: Bromberg (now Bydgoszcz) Gymnasium-Abitur (A levels) 1902; art history, archaeology and philosophy at Berlin and Heidelberg Universities; PhD 1907; left Germany 1933 because of racial persecution; England, 1933; India, 1934; USA, 1939; published numerous works initially on medieval European art and later oriental and Indian art; died, New York, 1941.
For biographical information on Dr Maurice Laserson see Wiener Library Biographical news-cuttings section (G15).
The restitution claim by Marie Rosenberg was rejected by the Entschädigungsamt, Berlin, on the grounds that the last known address of the wholesale livestock business, of which she was part owner, and on which the claim was based, was in the Russian zone of Berlin.
Marie Rosenberg (née Marcus) was born on 19 January 1889. Her husband, Louis, died in 1927. They had two children, Rolf Moritz (later Stanley Sloane) and Ruth. It is assumed that the family is Jewish, though there is no evidence of this. She appears to have left Germany shortly after 15 Dec 1939. The destination is not clear, but subsequent, post-war documentation reveals that she was resident in London and that she remained there until at least 1955 but no later than 1962, during which time she was in New York, living close to her son. The fate of her daughter is not known, beyond the fact that by 1937 she was married to someone by the name of Schmey. The fate of the family after 3 Apr 1962 (the date of the Entschädigungsamt's rejection of her restitution claim) is not known.
Hedwig, Pauline and Sabina Beck were Czech sisters. Hedwig and Pauline emigrated to France during World War Two. Sabina Bauml (née Beck) was transported to Auschwitz with her son in January 1944.
Frank Henley (formerly Otto Lichtenstein) came to England from Cologne on the Kindertransport, Dec 1938.
The Comité de defense de Juifs (Committee for Jewish Defence, CJD) worked with the national resistance movement and was the largest Jewish defence movement in Belgium during World War Two. The organisation hid Jews, fought as partisans, forged identity papers and food ration tickets, obtained funds and set up escape routes. In the cultural realm, CJD distributed information and propaganda material, established a lending library, and maintained a Jewish press, printing in Yiddish, French and Flemish.
Rudolf Beck owned a removals business in Vienna. His contacts enabled him to ship many of his possessions to the USA during World War Two. Ferdinand Beck is the son of Rudolf.
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