Claire Loewenfeld

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Claire Loewenfeld
Born
Claire Lewisohn

(1899-09-27)27 September 1899
Tübingen, Germany
Died20 August 1974(1974-08-20) (aged 74)
Buckland Common, Buckinghamshire
Resting placeSt Lawrence's Church, Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire
SpouseGünter Emanuel Loewenfeld (1895–1984)
Parent(s)Arthur Lewisohn, Jeanette Jacobi

Claire Loewenfeld, born Lewisohn in

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London, where she developed a fruit and vegetable diet for the treatment of coeliac disease.[5]

Loewenfeld was the founder of Chiltern Herb Farms in England,[6] one of the earliest producers of high-quality dried herbs, and was one of the first members of the Soil Association.[7] She wrote a number of books about nutrition, including Britain's Wild Larder: Fungi (1956), Herb Gardening (1967) and Everything You Should Know About Your Food (1978).

Early life

Claire was born in Berlin, Germany. Her parents were Arthur and Jeanette (née Jacobi) Lewisohn. She married Günther Emmanuel Loewenfeld (November 1895–January 1984) on 5 July 1921. They continued to live in Berlin in the period following their marriage.

Nazi movement, was subsequently forced into exile in the U.S.[13][14]

During early 1936 the Loewenfelds travelled to Syria and Palestine where they witnessed at first-hand the initial stages of the Arab uprising against British mandate and Jewish immigration. They spent the summer of 1936 near Cortina in the Italian Dolomites where they met Tillich who was on a European lecture tour. In Tillich's diary an account of their time in Palestine records: "While in Palestine, Claire and Guenther were in constant danger of their lives. Once, the only thing that saved them was their Arab guide saying they were German Nazis. Hitler is the big man with the Arabs. Mussolini gives them money to spite the British."[14]

From 1937 Claire and Lily's home in the Küssel provided a refuge for Jewish children, whose parents had been arrested or had been abandoned and were homeless.

St Christopher School, Letchworth, Hertfordshire.[15] Meanwhile, Günther joined relatives in England and Claire travelled first to Switzerland before rejoining her husband in early 1939.[11] The family settled in rural Buckinghamshire in 1939.[16]

Career

Rose hips
are a particularly rich source of vitamin C

During her time in Berlin in the 1920s Claire worked at an institute "providing slides and illustrations" for a university.

Zurich, Switzerland obtaining a special diploma in nutrition.[11] During the Second World War, she worked at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London, England as a dietician.[5] While there she specialised in the treatment of coeliac disease and successfully developed a new diet to treat it, based on Bircher-Benner's recipes, involving raw vegetable and fruit juice; she was also involved in longitudinal comparative studies assessing various treatments for the condition.[17]

During the war, Loewenfeld wrote to The Times and the British Medical Journal about the negative impact the shortage of fresh fruit and vegetables was having on the nation's health, and advocated the collection and distribution of

WH Smith.[22]

Later life

After the war, Claire set up Chiltern Herb Farm in

Soroptimist International.[8]

Claire Loewenfeld died on 20 August 1974, and is buried at St Lawrence's Church,

Helena Wright
née Lowenfeld.

Works

See also

References

  1. ^ Tillich, Paul et al. Ein Lebensbild in Dokumenten, Walter de Gruyter, 1980, p. 389.
  2. Gale Research
    , 1978.
  3. ^
    British Medical Journal
    , volume 1 (4199), 26 June 1941.
  4. ^ Snell, Reginald in Bircher-Benner. Fruit Dishes And Raw Vegetables, Health Research Books, 1985, p. 3.
  5. ^
    ISBN 0-906798-65-5
  6. ^ Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain), 1964, p. 497.
  7. ^ Loewenfeld, Claire. British Medical Journal, 1 April 1978, volume 1, issue 6119: "Claire Loewenfeld, who died in August 1974, was one of the first members of the Soil Association..."
  8. ^ a b c Gale Literary Databases - Claire Loewen feld, retrieved 28 August 2010
  9. ^ a b Pauck, Wilhelm & Marion, Paul Tillich: His Life & Thought–Volume 1: Life. New York: Harper & Row, 1976
  10. ^ Pincus, Lily. "Tavistock Relationships – Our History". Retrieved 18 November 2016.
  11. ^ a b c d Pincus, Lily Verloren, gewonnen: Mein Weg von Berlin nach London, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1980
  12. ^ Tillich,Paul; Palmer, Michael F. Writings in the philosophy of culture Ch. 9 Das Wohnen, der Raum und der Zeit, De Gruyter, 1980
  13. ^ a b Tillich, Paul; Albrecht, Renate; and Hahl, Margot. Ein Lebensbild in Dokumenten, Walter de Gruyter, 1980.
  14. ^ a b Tillich, Paul. My Travel Diary, 1936; Between Two Worlds Archived 7 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Harper & Row, 1970.
  15. The National Archives, Kew
    HO 396/56/231 & HO 396/56/230
  16. ^ Note:-Loewenfeld listing in Cholesbury 1939 Register
  17. ^ Wyllie, W. G.; Payne, W.W.; and Beynon, D. W. "A Dietetic Approach to the Coeliac Affection", Arch. Dis. Child., 1951, vol 26, pp, 4–19, retrieved 29 August 2009.
  18. ^ "Fruit from the hedgerows - Vitamins in Rose Hips". The Times. 29 August 1941.
  19. ^ UK National Archives, MAF 74/243
  20. ^ "Vitamins in Rose Hips". The Times. 4 October 1941.
  21. ^ "Notes on Books - Claire Loewenfeld". British Medical Journal. 2 (4254). 27 June 1942.
  22. ^ a b (Loewenfeld and Beck 1974). See Introduction p.13 of Revised 1978 edition published after Claire's death
  23. ^ The electrical journal, Volume 131 Retrieved, 03-09-2009
  24. ^ WorldCat listing for Claire Loewenfeld Retrieved, 03-09-2009
  25. ^ Loewenfeld, Claire. British Medical Journal, 1 April 1978, volume 1, issue 6119.

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