Joseph Landsberger

Dr. Joseph Landsberger, who was the older brother of Betty Landsberger Levy, wife of Robert Levy. He was a well-known physician and public health doctor in Berlin. He wrote to Brigitte Bodenheimer (Levy) signing Onkel Jos, so he certainly was her great-uncle. His wife's name was Fanny.

Joseph Landsberger was a Jewish doctor in Germany in the second half of the 19th and much of the first half of the 20th century. He was involved in the scientific advances of his time, especially in the fields of antisepsis and asepsis, bacteriology, surgical technique, public health and therapeutics. Joseph Landsberger was born in Posen in. 1848. His parents were Elias Landsberger (1820–73) and Phillipine Brandt (1824–88), both of Posen, -- http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/2/95

German physician; born at Posen Aug. 21, 1848; descendant of Aryeh Löb, who died as martyr in Posen in 1737; educated at the gymnasium of his native town and at the universities of Vienna and Berlin (M.D. 1873). In the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) he was active as an assistant surgeon. Settling as a physician in Posen, he practised there till 1901, when he retired from practise on account of ill health and removed to Charlottenburg, near Berlin.

Landsberger took an active part in the municipal life of Posen, being for eighteen years alderman, and for one year president of the aldermanic board. For four years he was also chief physician of the Jewish Hospital.

He has written several essays for the medical journals, and is the author of "Handbuch der Kriegschirurgischen Technik," Tübingen, 1875, which book received the Empress Augusta prize.S. F

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