Isidorus Brennsohn
Isidorus Brennsohn (15 September 1854 – 31 December 1928) was a medical doctor and biographer, active mainly in present-day Latvia.
Biography
Isidorus Brennsohn was born in a Jewish family in Jelgava, where he also spent the most of his early life. Between 1875 and 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Tartu, and received his doctor's degree in medicine from the same university in 1883. For some years, he was a provincial doctor in Subate in southern Latvia, before moving back to his hometown of Jelgava where he had his practice from 1885 to 1907. In parallel, he continued his studies and made several journeys abroad to study at universities in Germany and Austria. In 1907 he moved to Riga and worked for the rest of his life there as a doctor. During World War I he served at a military hospital in the city.[1]
Isidorus Brennsohn was also a historian of medicine and wrote the earliest biographical dictionary in the present-day Baltic states, Biographien baltischer Aerzte. Published in three volumes from 1902, it contains biographical information about doctors and physicians working in the present-day Baltic states, as well as essays on the historical development of medicine in the Baltic area.[1][2]
References
- ^ a b "Brennsohn, Isidorus (1854-1928)". Baltisches biografisches Lexikon digital (in German). Baltische Historische Kommission. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- ^ Balys, John P. (1965). "Baltic Encyclopedias and Biographical Directories". The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress. 22 (3): 271.