Metadata: Freudenberg, Rudolph Karl and Freudenberg, Gerda (née Vorster)
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Wellcome Collection
- Holding institution (official language):
- Wellcome Collection
- Postal address:
- Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston RoadLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomNW1 2BE
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 7611 8722
- Web address:
- https://wellcomecollection.org
- Reference number:
- PP/RKF
- Title:
- Freudenberg, Rudolph Karl and Freudenberg, Gerda (née Vorster)
- Title (official language):
- Freudenberg, Rudolph Karl and Freudenberg, Gerda (née Vorster)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Freudenberg, Rudolph Karl, 1908-1983, psychiatrist
- Freudenberg, Gerda, 1906-1995, née Vorster, physician
- Date(s):
- 1900/1984
- Language:
- English
- German
- Extent:
- 62 boxes
- Scope and content:
- These papers relate to psychiatric practice at Netherne Hospital, Freudenberg's involvement with various professional bodies, and his writings on psychiatry, 1930s-1970s.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Rudolf Karl Freudenberg was born, 1908; Studied medicine at the Universities of Kiel, Munich and Freiburg; Qualified MD, 1932; Became house officer in surgery in Berlin, 1932; Married Gerda Vorster, 1932; Lost job on account of Jewish background; Obtained job at University Neuro-histological Institute, Vienna, 1935; Did work on physiology of insulin coma treatment, 1936; Invited to join the staff of Moorcroft House, a private psychiatric hospital in Hillingdon, Middlesex, and moved to England, 1937; Obtained British medical qualifications (Scottish Triple), 1939; During World War Two was involved in primate research on leucotomy; Obtained Diploma in Psychiatric Medicine, 1945; consultant and Deputy Superintendent at Netherne Hospital, Surrey, 1947; Physician Superintendent at Netherne, 1951-1973; Senior Principal Medical Officer and Head of Medical Mental Section at the Ministry of Health, 1961-1964; President of Psychiatry Section, Royal Society of Medicine, 1965-1966; Establishment of Netherne Postgraduate Medical Centre (later the Freudenberg Centre), 1969; retired from Netherne, 1973; Senior Principal Medical Officer and Chief Advisor on Mental Health Research at the Ministry of Health, 1973-1977, died, 1983.Gerda Freudenberg was born, 1906; Qualified MD at Freiburg, 1932; Worked in medical posts in Berlin and married Rudolf Karl Freudenberg, 1933; Lost job in Berlin on account of Jewish background, 1935; Found jobs in Vienna, and later Berne, 1936; Joined her husband in England, with their first son, 1938; Worked with League of Friends of Netherne Hospital; Voluntary work for the Council for Music in Hospital, 1947-; Qualification for UK medical practice, 1950; died, 1995.
- Access points: locations:
- Great Britain
- Access points: persons/families:
- Freudenberg, Rudolph Karl
- Subject terms:
- Health and medical matters
- Access, restrictions:
- The material is available in the library at Wellcome Collection subject to the usual conditions of access.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://wellcomecollection.org/works/t8phnu78
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
- Wellcome Library