Jonas Charles Hermann Freund (1808 – 29 December 1879)[1] was an Austrian-British physician, known as the co-founder of the German Hospital in London.[2][3]
Career
editBorn to a Jewish family in Bohemia, Freund received a medical degree at the University of Vienna. In London in 1843 he was a co-founder of London's German Hospital, which opened in October 1845. He was Physician in Charge of the hospital until about 1850. The evidence suggests that he was Karl Marx's doctor.[4] Freund was Deputy Inspector-General of Army Hospitals in the Crimean war and an army surgeon.[1]
Family
editIn London in 1846 he married Prussian-born Louise Amalie Rüdiger, who became a prominent editor and author under the pseudonym "Amelia Lewis". She was an inventor and a campaigner for women's rights.[4] Their son John Christian Freund became a prominent editor and publisher.
References
edit- ^ a b "Deaths". British Medical Journal: 75. 10 January 1880.
- ^ Manz, Stefan; Beerbühl, Margrit Schulte; Davis, John R., eds. (2007). Migration and Transfer from Germany to Britain, 1660–1914. p. 121. ISBN 9783598230028.
- ^ German Hospital, Lost Hospitals of London, ezitis.myzen.co.uk
- ^ a b Rubinstein, William D. (2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. p. 302. ISBN 9780230304666.