Background
Flatau was born in Lyck, East Prussia (today Ełk, Poland), where he attended school.
Flatau was born in Lyck, East Prussia (today Ełk, Poland), where he attended school.
He passed his Abitur at the Graues Kloster in Berlin and studied medicine at the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg. He became a teacher of voicephysiology and the theory of singing at the royal music-academy and studied Philosophy and Psychology in 1894-1897 In 1926 Flatau became the head of the phoniatric section of the Charité hospital and was dismissed in 1933.
In 1883 Flatau started to work as a physician in Berlin, specialized on earand nose-diseases. Flatau died in Berlin.