Dr. Thannhauser was a brilliant medical doctor, teacher, researcher, and diagnostician. Born and raised in Munich, Bavaria he moved to Brookline in Boston in 1935 becoming a professor at Tufts Medical School. He left Germany because he was jewish. He never returned even though he was invited many times after the war. A street was named for him in Frieburg and a biochemistry prize.
Love at first sight was how he and Fanny Reiner felt about each other when they met at the 1909 Automobile Club Ball. WW I and the difference in their backgrounds combined to make it a long wait before they married.
More about him in the biography of his life mentioned on these web pages:
Also his grandaughter Kitty has blogged about him many times, most recently quoting from a recently found letter to his German colleagues in 1946:
* Alan F. Hofmann and Nepomuk Zöllner. "Siegfried Thannhauser (1885-1962) Physician and Scientist in Turbulant Times." 2006. Falk Foundation e.V., Leinenweberstr. 5, Postfach 6529, 79041 Freiburg, E-Mail: literaturservice@falkfoundation.de
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