Ref No | WIA GC/20099 |
Title | Embden, Heinrich to Warburg, Aby 08/01/1929 |
Writer | Embden, Heinrich |
Institution1 | Allgemeines Krankenhaus Barmbek |
Place1 | Hamburg, Heilwigstrasse 39 |
Recipient | Warburg, Aby |
Date | 08/01/1929 |
DateNote | wrongly dated 08/01/1928 |
Format | manuscript |
Contents | thanks him for New Year greetings and good wishes and the gift of glasses on the occasion of the wedding of his daughter Mathilde [Embden]; his sister Marianne suffered an embolism at the wedding and is in hospital; on a new diabetes drug which [Heinrich] Embden does not recommend; is very pleased about the progress of Warburg's work; on bankruptcies in Hamburg; the situation is diametrically opposed to a Parker Gilbert [Canadian novelist, wrote 'The Promised Land' in 1928] type of optimism; on a brain operation he witnessed in Berlin, executed by Emil Heymann; he saw the [V.] van Gogh collection of Mrs. Kröller in Berlin and the [L.v.] Kalckreuth collection of [Max] Liebermann, Max Slevogt, Lovis Corinth paitings; he liked the Corinth paintings, but finds the building 'tasteless'; he enjoyed reading two volumes 'Eckermann' and his impressions of Goethe; finds it understandable that [Franz] Alber went to see the Pope |
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Code | PersonName | Dates |
DS/UK/416 | Embden; Heinrich (19/03/1871-03/04/1941); Dr. med. | 19/03/1871-03/04/1941 |
DS/UK/432 | Embden; Marianne (d. 26/03/1929) | d. 26/03/1929 |
DS/UK/916 | Embden; Mathilde | |
DS/UK/1067 | Liebermann; Max (20/07/1847-08/02/1935) | 20/07/1847-08/02/1935 |
DS/UK/1757 | Alber; Franz | |
DS/UK/1776 | Slevogt; Max (18/10/1868-20/09/1932); Prof. h.c. | 18/10/1868-20/09/1932 |