How to Pronounce Erwin Ackerknecht
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Jun 01, 1906 Szczecin, West Pomeranian Voivodeship Died on 18 Nov 1988 (aged 82)
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About Erwin Ackerknecht
- Erwin Heinz Ackerknecht (1 June 1906 in Stettin – 18 November 1988 in Zurich) was an active and influential Trotskyist in the 1930s who had to flee Germany in 1933 after Hitler’s rise to power.
- It was in the United States, the country that granted him citizenship, that Ackerknecht became an influential historian of medicine.
- He wrote groundbreaking works on the social and ecological dimensions of disease and was a forerunner of contemporary trends in social and cultural history.
- He became the first Chair in the history of medicine at the University of Wisconsin; the second such position in the United States.
