Albert Fraenkel (1848-1916), founding director of the hospital "Am Urban

Albert Fraenkel (* 10.3.1848 Frankfurt (Oder); † 6.7.1916 Berlin-Grunewald) was a German internist and bacteriologist. He was born the son of the Jewish ironmonger David Fraenkel. His mother was the niece of Ludwig Traube, a professor of internal medicine. [...]

In Berlin, he attended the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium. In 1866, he passed the Abitur, began his medical studies in Berlin, and four years later received his doctorate on the adrenal disease Addison's disease. In 1872 he received his license to practice medicine. Fraenkel then worked at the medical clinic of the University of Strasbourg under Adolf Kußmaul. He later became an assistant to Ludwig Traube at the Charité and, after his death, to his successor Ernst Viktor von Leyden from 1876. In 1877 he habilitated and was appointed professor in 1884. In the 1880s Fraenkel worked as a physician in the municipal infirmary, followed by management of a private polyclinic. In 1890, he became director of the newly built Am Urban Hospital in Berlin-Kreuzberg, alongside Werner Körte, while also heading its internal medicine department. Fraenkel succeeded in passing on his experience to young physicians in a suitable form; this is how some of his students later became famous, such as Hans Kohn. In 1891, Fraenkel was elected a member of the Leopoldina. [...] In January 1916 Fraenkel's wife died; six months later he himself succumbed to a heart attack. His grave is located in the Jewish Cemetery Weißensee. [...]

Since July 1947, the Fraenkelufer on the Landwehrkanal in Berlin-Kreuzberg has borne his name.

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