Jewish Medicine and Healthcare in Central Eastern Europe by Marcin Moskalewicz & Ute Caumanns & Fritz Dross

Author:Marcin Moskalewicz & Ute Caumanns & Fritz Dross
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319924809
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

9.4 List of the German-Jewish Doctors Who Worked for the Colonial Services in the Dutch East Indies

So far, I have found only four German-Jewish doctors who entered the colonial health service in the Dutch East Indies outside our period of investigation (1815–1850/60): Julius Schülein from Eschenau in Bavaria – employed from 1877 to 1890,3 Victor Lehmann from Berlin – employed from 1887 to 1891,4 Albert Paradies from Wreschen in the Prussian province of Posen (today’s Września in Poland) – employed from 1898 until his death in 18995; and last but not least Salomon Hurwitz from Königsberg (today’s Kaliningrad in Russia) – employed from 1923 until his death in 1946.6 , 7 There is only little evidence of the presence of German-Jewish doctors in the Netherlands Antilles or any other of the former Dutch colonies. But I can provide evidence of some German-Jewish doctors working for the other two big military branches – the Dutch Navy8 and the Dutch Army in the Netherlands itself. A discussion of these doctors however, does not fall within the scope of my current contribution.

The so far identified 19 German-Jewish doctors, who entered the colonial health services in the Dutch East Indies between 1824 and 1844, will be presented in more details in this chapter. For this purpose, I will provide some brief information concerning their birth and death dates, family backgrounds, education, scientific achievements, and career paths. Most of this information can be found in the so called “stamboeken” (a kind of military registration system) which are stored in the National Archives in The Hague. As far as possible, I tried to verify this information by cross-referencing with research done in German archives. [no 1] Bensbach, Heinrich (Hayum) Leopold, born on 6 December 1806 [1801]9 in Mannheim (Grand Duchy Baden) as the first son of the rabbi Simon (Simche) Bensbach (1774–1845) and Mirle Isaak (~ 1779–1821)10; studied in Würzburg (1830–1832) and Heidelberg (1832–1837)11; obtained his doctorate in Gießen on 5 Juny 1837 (Dr. med.)12; entered the military health service on 29 August 1837 as an appointed health officer 3rd class; arrived on 26 April 1838 in Batavia; retired on 17 February 1858 as health officer 3rd; died on 2 April 1859 in Dutch Celebes (Sulawesi).13

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