Background

Brill, Nathan Edwin was born on January 13, 1860 in New York, United States. Son of Simon and Adelheit (Frankenthal) Brill.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, College City of New York, 1877, Master of Arts, 1883. Doctor of Medicine University Medical College (New York University), 1880.

Career

Interne Bellevue Hospital, 1879-1881, attending physical 1st medical division, Mount Sinai Hospital, since 1893. Professor clinical medicine, College Physicians and Surgical (Columbia), since 1910. Consulting physical Mount Sinai Hospital Discoverer, 1910, of previously unrecognized form of typhus fever known as Brill’s disease.

Major Medical O.R.C., 1917, and director Base Hospital Northern 3.

Trustee New York Academy of Medicine. Member Public Health Committee.

Fellow New York Academy Medicine. Translator: Klemperer Clinical Diagnosis, 1898.

Home: New York, New New York

Achievements

• Nathan Edwin Brill has been listed as a noteworthy physician by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Public Health Committee.

Connections

Married Elsa M. Josephthal, June 8, 1899. Children: Elisabeth Joyce, John Lewis.