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Leonard Abrahamson | |
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| Born | Lazar or Lazarus Pandrick 29 April 1896 Siamiatyčy, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 29 October 1961 (aged 65) Dublin, Ireland |
Resting place | Dolphins Barn Jewish Cemetery |
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| Education | Trinity College Dublin |
| Spouse |
Tillie Abrahamson (m. 1920) |
| Children | 5, including |
| Relatives | Lenny Abrahamson (grandson) |
Leonard Eliezer "The Abe" Abrahamson (né Lazar or Lazarus Pandrick; 29 April 1896 – 29 October 1961) was an Irish cardiologist.[1][2][3]
Biography
Abrahamson was born either Lazar or Lazarus Pandrick on 29 April 1896 in Siamiatyčy, Grodno Governorate (present-day Siemiatycze, Poland)[a] to Jewish parents David Abrahamson (né Pandrick), a draper, and Frances Abrahamson.[b][1][2][5][6] Fleeing pogroms, the Abrahamson family emigrated to Newry, County Down in 1899.[1][2] The third of four siblings, Abrahamson was the last of his siblings to be born in Siamiatyčy.[c][5][6]
Educated at Abbey Christian Brothers' Grammar School, Abrahamson entered Trinity College Dublin in 1914[d] with a double sizarship in Irish and Hebrew.[1][2] Awarded a foundation scholarship in modern languages in 1915, Abrahamson graduated with a Bachelor's in French and German in 1918.[1][2] He transferred to the School of Physic[7] and consolidated his medical training with a year's postgraduate study in Paris in 1921.[8]
Abrahamson was appointed as a physician to the staff of Mercer's Hospital in 1920 and then Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). He published extensively on cardiology, he was a member of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland and President of the Biological Society in Trinity College Dublin. He was appointed Professor of Medicine at RCSI in 1934, a chair he held until his death in 1961.[9] The Cardiac Club founded in 1922 in Oxford, elected Leonard Abrahamson a member in 1934.[10]
Abrahamson was President of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland (1949), having earlier (1941) been appointed to the first board of the House of Industry hospitals by Seán MacEntee.[11]
Abrahamson attended Bill Beckett, father of Samuel Beckett, on the day of his death from a heart attack on 26 June 1933.
Personal life
In 1920, Abrahamson married Tillie Abrahamson (née Nurock).[1][12] The couple had 1 daughter and 4 sons, including the solicitor and lecturer Max Abrahamson.[1][2] The brother-in-law of the Irish–Israeli ambassador Max Nurock[13], Abrahamson was the grandfather of the film director Lenny Abrahamson.
On 29 October 1961, Abrahamson died at his home in Dublin aged 65.[1][2] Abrahamson was buried at the Dolphins Barn Jewish Cemetery.[1][2]
Notes
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Andrews, Helen (October 2016) [October 2009]. "Abrahamson, Leonard". Dictionary of Irish Biography (online ed.). Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. doi:10.3318/dib.000013.v2. Retrieved 19 August 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Horgan, John. "Leonard Abrahamson". RCPI Heritage Centre. Dublin: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Retrieved 19 August 2026.
- ↑ Ward, Dermot (8 April 2015). "The Jewish diaspora in medicine". Irish Medical Times. Retrieved 19 August 2026.
- ↑ Rivlin, Ray (2003), Shalom Ireland, Gill & MacMillan, p. 144
- 1 2 3 "Residents of 92 Canal Street". Census of Ireland, 1901; Down; Newry West Urban; Canal Street. Dublin: National Archives of Ireland. 1901. Retrieved 19 August 2026.
- 1 2 "No.14646 David Pandrick known as David Abrahamson". Duplicate Certificates of Naturalisation, Declarations of British Nationality, and Declarations of Alienage. Kew, Richmond: The National Archives. 1904.
- ↑ Lyons, JB (1999). A Pride of Professors, The Professors of Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland 1813–1985. Dublin: Farmar. p. 255. ISBN 1899047514.
- ↑ Obituary, British Medical Journal, 1961, pp. 1295–6
- ↑ Lyons, JB (1999). A Pride of Professors :the Professors of Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland 1813 – 1985. Dublin: Farmer. p. 258
- ↑ Cowan, J (1939), Some Notes on the Cardiac Club, British Heart Journal, pp. 97–104
- ↑ Ó Gráda, Cormac (2016), Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce, Princeton University Press, p. 267
- ↑ "Abrahamson Household". Census of Ireland, 1926; Dublin; Fitzwilliam; Fitzwilliam Place. Dublin: National Archives of Ireland. 1926. Retrieved 19 August 2026.
- ↑ "Max Mordechai Nurock". Geni. Retrieved 23 August 2017.