Harry Sicher

Born:	09-11-1889
Faculty:	Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category:	Expelled teacher

Harry SICHER (b. September 11^th, 1889 in Vienna, d. September 10^th, 1974 in the USA) was private lecturer with the title of an extrordinary professor ("Pd. tit.ao.Prof.") for dentistry and dental surgery at the Medical School of the University of Vienna. He was persecuted in times of Nazism as a Jew lost his position and was forced to leave the university on April 22^nd, 1938. He had to flee from Vienna and could emigrate to the USA.

Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna, S 304.1192, 106.I.1570; personnell rooster 1937/38 MERINSKY 1980, 223; MUEHLBERGER 1993, 32; UB MUW/van Swieten Blog; Timo Schunck u. Dominik Gross, From Nazi victim to honored scientist: The two lives of Jewish anatomist Harry Sicher (1889–1974), in: Annals of Anatomy, 235 (2021) 151667.

Herbert Posch