Emil Starkenstein
Emil Starkenstein (December 18, 1884 – November 6, 1942Dutch Jew resisted a Nazi patrol.[2]
Emil Starkenstein was born in the
Stephen Bathory.[4]
He was a professor at the German University in Prag (formerly German Charles Ferdinand University – see
German invasion of the Netherlands in 1939, Starkenstein was confined to an area in Amsterdam with other Jews, where they were forced to wear yellow badges and banned from civil service employment.[2] He was arrested and deported in 1941, via Prague and Terezin, to Mauthausen concentration camp. His wife and daughter survived in hiding in The Netherlands, and after the war his wife Marie (née Weil) donated his extensive collection of papers (more than 20,000 items) to the Czechoslovak state. In 2002, these papers were finally deposited in the archives of Charles University in Prague. In addition to the scientific papers, Starkenstein had one of the most impressive pharmacological libraries ever assembled. Before he was killed in the Nazi concentration camps, his family agreed to sell the collection to rare book dealer Ludwig Gottschalk, but when Gottschalk faced deportation to the camps himself, he secreted the library in several locations in the Black Forest and went into hiding. After the war, he reassembled the Starkenstein books and for nearly half a century sold items from the collection under the name Biblion, Inc., in Forest Hills, New York.[5] A portion of the library was purchased by the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden
. These 147 volumes, dealing primarily with the medicinal uses of plants, are identified by Starkenstein's bookplate.
Works
- Die neueren Arzneimittel und die pharmakologischen Grundlagen ihrer Anwendung in der ärztlichen Praxis . Springer, Berlin 2nd edition 1914 Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
References
- ^ a b c d Jezdinský, Jaroslav (2006). "Emil Starkenstein – One of the Most Important Personalities of European Continental Pharmacology in the Period Between the two World Wars". Neuroendocrinology Letters. 27. Archived from the original on 2011-07-20.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-415-28145-4.
- ^ "Familienforschung | WorldCat.org". Retrieved 13 February 2024.
- ^ http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/bohemia/boh575.html The History of the Jews in Ronsperg (Poběžovice)
- ^ http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/vha1490 USC Shoah Foundation Institute testimony of Ludwig Gottschalk
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