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Aronssohn

THE JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA

Arragel

sen, Merfizininclicx SchriftsteUer-Lexicim derjetzt den Aerzlc, Wuiulaerzte, etc., 1830, i. 244.

Leben-

F. T. H.

s.

ARONSSOHN, JACQUES LEON:

Gernian

physician; born at Metz May 2, 1793; died at Strasburg Sept. 8, 1861. His father, Jacques Aronssohn (died 1845), practised medicine at the garrison of Pont-a-Mousson. Aronssohn went to Strasburg in 1809 to matriculate at the Faculte de Medecine. He took his degree as doctor in 1816 became assistant surgeon at the municipal hospital in 1823; and resigned this position two years later to go to England to finish his studies. In London he made the acquaintance of some of the most prominent physicians and surgeons, as, for instance, Astley Cooper, Lawrence Brodie, and Tyrrell. After his return to France he established himself as a physician at Strasburg and during his twenty -five years of practise he was regarded as one of the most efficient of doctors. In 1838, suffering from a chronic irritation of the larynx, lie went to Italy to seek a milder climate. At Pisa he was requested by the French ambassador to take part in the autopsy on the body Scarcely of the daughter of King Louis Philippe.



had

this

work been by

when he was sum-

finished,

the widow of King Murat. During 1832, while the cholera raged in France, Aronssohn was requested to organize one of the provisory hospitals. Later he was appointed a member of the Central Sanitary Commission of the board of health of the committee of primary instruction; of the commission for the inspection of the asylum at Stephansfeld and physician to the Eastern Railway Company. From 1849 he was president of the Societe de Medecine de Strasbourg and a member of several French and foreign scientific The Legion of Honor was bestowed on societies. him in 1839; at the same time he was appointed assistant physician to the king, which for him was merely a title. It brought him in contact, however, with the ro3r al family and the eminent men of that epoch. As early as 1823 he was authorized by the Royal Council of Public Instruction to establish a course of surgical instruction. Pie took an active part in the foundation of the institution for the examination of fellowship and when Professor Lobstein died Aronssohn remained in charge of the med-

moned

to Florence





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ulte"; "L'Introduction au Traite sur les Eaux Minerales du Duche de Nassau" (translated from Kaula); "L'Infiammation et les Scrofules." Besides these works Aronssohn wrote a number of reports for different societies and committees of which he was a member; for instance, "Pro jet de Loi d' Organisation Medicate."

Bibliography



Gazette Medicate de Strasbourg,

1863, pp.

181-190.

A.

s.

L. German chemist born May Westphalia; graduated from the University of Gottingen in 1864 with the degree of Ph.D. Two years later he became assistant in the physical department of the University of Leyden, Holland, and in 1867 accepted the post of director at the high school (Hi/here Biirgerschule) of Breda, Brabant, where he also taught the natural sciences. In 1876 Aronstein was appointed professor of chemistry at the Royal Military Academy of Breda, and in 1894 was offered a similar appointment in the Royal Polytechnic School, Delft. He accepted the invitation, and has continued to occupy the position ever since. His papers, which are of a distinctly technical character, have appeared on the pages of Liebig's " Annalen der Chemie," published in Leipsic and Heidelberg in the " Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellshaft," the "Recueil des Travaux Chimiques des Pays-Bas, " etc. Brief notices and reviews of Aronstein's contributions to chemistry may be found in the " Jahresbericht uber die Fortschritte der Chemie," edited by F. Fittica, Brunswick.

ARONSTEIN,





25, 1841, at Telgte,







months. Aronssohn was not eloquent his lectures resembled his conversation they were informal talks, attractive, and so presented that they held the attenical clinic for six





tion of the pupils. The grief he suffered at the death of an adopted son, the severe illness of his beloved daughter, and

the loss of a dear friend, brought on the heart-failure that ended his useful life. Aronssohn is the author of: " Les Tumeurs De veloppees dans les Nerfs, " inaugural dissertation, 1822; "Appreciez les Progres Recents du Diagnostic," 1836; "Memoires et Observa1st tions de Medecine et de Chirurgie Pratiques " Memoire: "LTnstruction des Vers dans les Voies Aeriennes"; 2d and 3d Memoires: " Quelques Points " Lotion " Tetanos " de I'Histoire des Hernies " Chaudes des Terebentliine dans les Brulures " " Compte Rendu de la Clinique Medicate de la Fac;



Bibliography: Poggendorff, Biographisch-Literarlsehes Handwdrterbuch, Leipsic, 1898.

A.

s.

ARONSTEIN, PHILIPP

S.

(pen-name

0.

Arn-

stein) German school-teacher and author; born Dec. 4, 1862, at Halver, province of Westphalia, Prussia. Aronstein received his education at the gymnasium in Soest, the universities of Berlin and Bonn, and the Academy of Miinster, whence he was graduated as doctor of philosophy. After having taught at different schools in England and Germany, he at present (1902) holds the position of Oberlehrer at the Progymnasium at Myslowitz, province of He has been a contributor to sevSilesia, Prussia.

well-known German magazines and newspapers "Neue Deutsche Rundschau," "Anglia" ("Ben Jonson's Theorie dor Lustspiele," 1894; "DickensStudien," 1896), "Englische Studien" ("John Marsten als Dramatiker," 1894; "Die Entwicklung der Lokalverwaltung in England," 1895), "Neuere Sprachen" ("England um die Mitte des 18tcn Jahrhunderts," 1895), and has written principally upon education in England, and English history and literature. Aronstein's chief independent works are: "Benjamin Disraeli's Leben und Dichterische Werke," 1895, and "Die Entwicklung der Hoheren Knabenschulen in England," 1897. He also translated from the English into German Bishop Mandell eral

e.g.,

Creighton's

"Age

of

Queen Elizabeth,"

1900..

F. T. H.

s.



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city of northern Syria, the modern Tell-Erfad, thirteen miles northwest of Aleppo. It