Background
Kallmann was born in Neumarkt, Silesia, the son of Marie (née Mordze / Modrey) and Bruno Kallmann, who was a surgeon and general practitioner.
Kallmann was born in Neumarkt, Silesia, the son of Marie (née Mordze / Modrey) and Bruno Kallmann, who was a surgeon and general practitioner.
Doctor of Medicine, University Breslau (Germany), 1919. Doctor of Medicine (honorary), University Torino (Italy), 1957.
He developed the use of twin studies in the assessment of the relative roles of heredity and the environment in the pathogenesis of psychiatric disease. He fled Germany in 1936 for the United States, because he was of Jewish heritage. Paradoxically, he had been a student of Doctor Ernst Rüdin, one of the architects of racial hygiene policies in Nazi Germany.
In a speech delivered in 1935, while still in Germany, he advocated the examination of relatives of schizophrenia patients with the aim to find and sterilize the "nonaffected carriers" of the supposed recessive gene responsible for the condition.
In 1944, he described a congenital endocrine condition (hypogonadotropic hypogonadism with anosmia) that has come to be known as Kallmann"s syndrome. In 1948, he became one of the founders of the American Society of Human Genetics.
He died in New New York Nervenarzt 2: 149-53.
Fellow New York Academy of Medicine, New York Academy Sciences, American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association, American Gerontological Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Society Human Genetics (president 1951-1952), American Psychopathol. Association (president 1964-1965), Eastern Psychiatric Research Association (president 1963-1964.
Married Helen J. Burger, September 27, 1922.