Prof. Dr. of Physiology - Isidor Rosenthal

Isidor Rosenthal was born on July 16, 1836 in Labischin (Łabiszyn), the son of the Jewish country doctor Samuel Rosenthal, and attended grammar school in Bromberg from 1846 to 1855. In 1855 he enrolled at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. During this time, Isidor Rosenthal lived with his brother Ludwig Rosenthal at Friedrichstra e Nr.153 a. He completed his doctorate at the University of Berlin in 1859. Isidor Rosenthal then became assistant to the physiologist Prof. Emil Du Bois-Reymond  and habilitated in 1862. On September 30, 1869 he married Anna Jeannette Amalie Höber, born on September 5, 1841 in Karlsruhe. Her father Eduard Höber was a respected, wealthy Jewish merchant from Karlsruhe. Anna's mother was née Oppenheim, sister of the well-known Jewish liberal parliamentarian Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim. Isidor and Anna Rosenthal had a biological son, Werner, born on June 24, 1870 in Berlin. The couple also took on the nephew and later Leipzig professor Erich Marx as a foster son. In March, Rosenthal was drafted into the 2nd Heavy Field Hospital of the 3rd Army Corps as an army doctor. Isidor Rosenthal received his second call-up in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, for which he was honored with the Iron Cross with White Ribbon. In 1872, Isidor Rosenthal was appointed Professor of Physiology and Director of the Institute of Physiology at the University of Erlangen. In 1881, he became editor of the journal Biologisches Zentralblatt. In 1906 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Erlangen, and in 1908 he was awarded the title Königlicher Geheimer Hofrat. In 1909 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Erlangen Faculty of Philosophy. Both Isidor Rosenthal and his wife Anna were extremely active and committed in the community. Isidor Rosenthal died in Erlangen on January 2, 1915.

Anna Rosenthal remained in Erlangen until 1921, when she moved to Göttingen to live with her son Werner.