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Albin Oppenheim

Born: 01-08-1875
Faculty: Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category: Expelled teacher
Albin OPPENHEIM (born on January 8th, 1875 in Brünn, died on November 20th, 1945 in Los Angeles) was lecturer ('Dozent') for Zahnheilkunde at the Medical School of the University of Vienna.
He was persecuted in times of Nazism as a Jew lost his position and was thrown out of the university on April 22nd, 1938. He was able to emigrate 1938 to Switzerland and 1939 to Los Angeles/USA. Lit.: MERINSKY 1980, 175-177; UB MedUni Wien/van Swieten Blog
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