Rudolf Cohn Collection 1886-1971

The collection contains some personal documents of and official correspondence to Rudolf Cohn, but is mainly composed of published and unpublished manuscripts.Born in Schneidemühl (now Pila, Poland) on April 23, 1862, Cohn studied medicine, receiving his doctorate at the University of Königsberg in 1886. He was a lecturer and assistant professor at Königsberg, specializing in pharmacology and physiological chemistry, and also continued in private medical practice. Cohn emigrated to Palestine in 1933 and died there in 1938.The original 4-page German language inventory is available in folder 1.Processed for digitizationdigitize