Hamburger, Charlotte, 1899-1977

Louis Liepmann was the son of the businessman David Liepmann and his wife Adelheid née Friedlander, who lived in Berlin. Louis Liepmann married Fanny Plaut, and they had two sons: Paul and Hugo.

Hugo Carl Liepmann was born in Berlin in 1863, not far from Unter den Linden. He studied chemistry as well as philosophy at the Universities of Freiburg and Leipzig, and in 1885 received his doctorate, his dissertation on the "Leukipp-Democrit Atoms." The following year he returned to Berlin where he continued to study chemistry. From 1889-1890 he served in the army. After his return to Berlin, he found himself dissatisfied with philosophy, specifically the ideas of Neo-Kantians and decided to study medicine, with a concentration in psychiatry. In 1894 he completed his studies in medicine, and in 1895 became junior doctor at the psychiatric clinic at the University of Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) under the psychiatrist Carl Wernicke. In 1896, on a vacation to Baden-Baden with his parents and other family members, he met Julius and Adelheid Bleichröder and two of their daughters, who were staying at the same hotel.

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