Theodor Simon Flatau (4 June 1860 – 1937) was a German physician.
Flatau was born in
Lyck,
East Prussia
East Prussia ; german: Ostpreißen, label=Low Prussian; pl, Prusy Wschodnie; lt, Rytų Prūsija was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 187 ...
(today Ełk, Poland), where he attended school. He passed his
Abitur
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at the
Graues Kloster in
Berlin
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and studied medicine at the
Universities of Berlin and
Heidelberg
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.
[Biography at jewishencyclopadia.com]
/ref> In 1883 Flatau started to work as a physician in Berlin, specialized on ear- and nose-diseases. He became a teacher of voicephysiology and the theory of singing at the royal music-academy and studied Philosophy and Psychology in 1894-97[Biography]
In 1926 Flatau became the head of the phoniatric section of the Charité
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hospital and was dismissed in 1933.phoniatrics-uep.org
Flatau died in Berlin.
Publications
*"Die Laryngoskopie und Rhinoskopie mit Einschluss der Allgemeinen Diagnostik und Therapie," Berlin, 1890
*Die Nasen-, Rachen- und Kehlkopfkrankheiten, Leipzig 1894
*Die Bauchrednerkunst (with
H. Gutzmann), Leipzig 1894
*Die Nasen-, Rachen- und Kehlkopfkrankheiten, Lehrbuch für Ärzte und Studierende, Leipzig 1895
*Die Sprachgebrechen des Jugendlichen Alters, Halle 1896
*Hygiene des Kehlkopfes und der Stimme; die Stimmstörungen der Sänger, Vienna 1898
*Die Anwendung des Röntgenschen Verfahrens in der Rhinolaryngologie, Vienna 1899
*Die Hysterie in ihren Beziehungen zu den oberen Luftwegen und zum Ohre, Halle 1899
*Die Bauchrednerkunst mit Einschluss der allg. Diagnostik, Berlin 1899
*Prophylaxe der Hals- und Nasenkrankheiten, Munich 1900
*Intonationsstörungen und Stimmverlust, Berlin 1902
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1860 births
1937 deaths
People from Ełk
19th-century German Jews
People from the Province of Prussia
Heidelberg University alumni
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
Speech and language pathologists