Eugen Fraenkel
Academic
1853 – 1925
Who was Eugen Fraenkel?
Eugen Fraenkel was a German bacteriologist.
Eugen Fraenkel worked as pathologist and bacteriologist researcher at the Eppendorf Hospital affiliated with the University of Hamburg where he discovered the gas gangrene bacillus. He served in the German military during World War I.
Eugen Fraenkel was married to Marie Fraenkel with whom he had three children: Max Fraenkel, Hans Fraenkel, and Margarete Kuttner née Fraenkel. Hans left Germany to work as an economist and journalist in Switzerland, his descendants living in Switzerland and Italy. Max, a physician in Hamburg, committed suicide under pressure of antisemitic chicanery. Marie perished in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, and Margarete, who had moved to Berlin, during the last gassing at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in November 1944.
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- Born
- Sep 28, 1853
Prudnik - Nationality
- Germany
- Died
- Dec 20, 1925
Hamburg
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on July 23, 2013
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