Background
Edelstein, Ludwig was born on April 23, 1902 in Berlin, Germany. Son of Isidor and Mathilde (Adler) Edelstein.
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Edelstein, Ludwig was born on April 23, 1902 in Berlin, Germany. Son of Isidor and Mathilde (Adler) Edelstein.
Student of University Berlin, 1921-1924. Doctor of Philosophy, Heidelberg University, 1929.
He left Germany in 1933 and took up an appointment at Johns Hopkins University in 1934. Subsequently he taught at the University of Washington and the University of California at Berkeley, from which he resigned rather than sign the "loyalty oath". He then returned to Johns Hopkins, where he had appointments at the University in Philosophy and at the School of Medicine in History of Medicine.
At the University he taught ancient Greek philosophy in undergraduate and graduate seminars and courses.
He was an inspiring and beloved teacher. He retired from Hopkins and spent his last years at the then newly founded Rockefeller Institute.
( Institute of the History of Medicine )
Member American Philosophical Society, American Philological Association, American Philosophical Association, American Association History Medicine, History of Science Society, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Emma J. Levy, October 25, 1928.