Basil Kazen Ellenbogen (22 December 1917 - 26 January 1996) was a British Army officer and consultant physician.

Early life

Ellenbogen was born Basil Katzenellenbogen in Liverpool, the son of Max Katzenellenbogen and Gertrude Hamburg. His brother was the barrister and author

Gershon Ellenbogen Gershon Ellenbogen (7 January 1917 – September 2003), was a British barrister, author and a Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician. He was notable for his contribution to the well known and much used legal reference work the ''Constitution ...

. He was educated at

Liverpool Collegiate School Liverpool Collegiate School was an all-boys grammar school, later a comprehensive school, in the Everton area of Liverpool. Foundations The Collegiate is a striking, Grade II listed building, with a facade of pink Woolton sandstone, designed ...

and Liverpool University, where he studied medicine, graduating in 1941.

Selected publications

* ''A Therapeutic Index'', by Clarence Montague Miller and Basil Kazen Ellenbogen (1955)

Personal life

He met his future wife, the author Marianne Strauss (died December 1996), in Düsseldorf, when he was a Captain in the British Army attached to the occupying forces after World War II. They spent the rest of their lives in Liverpool. He was much more

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in his

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than his wife, whose parents had only been irregular visitors to the

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. They had two children.

References

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