Prof. Dr. Adolph Baginsky

The following entry can be found in the 1903 edition of the Berlin address book: Baginsky Adolf, Dr.med. Kais. und Kaiserin Friedrich - Kinder Krankenh., a. o.- Prof. d. Kinderheilkunde a. d. Univers., W. Potsdamerstr.5 I (Tel. VI 2017.)  Adolph Aron Baginsky was born on May 22, 1843 in Ratibor. His parents were the merchant Abraham Baginsky and Amalie Baginsky, née Lustig. Adolph Baginsky was married to Clara Therese Kristeller, who was born in Berlin on October 15, 1858. The couple had two children - Mirjam Marietta Alice, born on June 2, 1885, and Arnold James, born on August 14, 1887. After attending grammar school in Ratibor, Adolf Baginsky studied medicine in Berlin and Vienna from 1861 to 1866 under Rudolf Virchow and Ludwig Traube. On May 7, 1866, he received his doctorate in medicine in Berlin. After a period as an assistant in the city hospital during the cholera period in 1866, he passed the state examination in Berlin in 1867 and then practised as a doctor in Seehausen near Magdeburg in 1868. In 1870/1871, he was a stage doctor and head of a reserve hospital in Nordhausen and, after returning to Berlin in 1872, opened his own outpatient clinic for pediatric diseases, dedicating himself to pediatrics very early on, founding the Centralzeitung für Kinderheilkunde in 1877 and the Archiv für Kinderheilkunde in 1879. In 1881, Adolf Baginsky habilitated as a private lecturer in pediatric diseases at the Medical Faculty of the University of Berlin. In 1890, together with Rudolf Virchow, he founded the Kaiser and Kaiserin Friedrich Children's Hospital and ran it as director until 1918, shortly before his death. Adolph Baginsky died on May 15, 1918 and found his final resting place at the Jüdischer Friedhof Weißensee.