A huge archive of hundreds of personal letters from and Prof. Ludwig Halberstädter - senior doctor and pioneer of cancer treatment in Israel. Hundreds of letters written by him and sent to him in all areas of life - his work as a doctor, his various studies, his managerial positions in the institutions he headed, personal matters between him and his wife, his children's education, and more. Most of the letters are written in German, and they were written in the 1930s while he was the head of the Radium Institute at the Hadassah Hospital for the treatment of malignant diseases. The contents of the letters have not been thoroughly checked by us and are sold as is.
Ludwig Halberstätter [1876-1949] a professor of therapeutic radiology, founded and was the head of the Radium Institute (for the treatment of malignant diseases) at Hadassah Hospital Jerusalem, was a pioneer of cancer treatment in Israel. Born in Bitum in Silesia. He graduated from medical studies in Breslau in 1901. Between 1901-1905 he was an assistant for skin diseases at the Dermatology Clinic at the University of Breslau, and later moved to Berlin. Halberstetter was one of the team members who discovered the generator of trachoma in 1909 in Indonesia. In 1919 he was appointed director of the Radiotherapy Institute at the Cancer Institute in Berlin, and continued his work in Berlin as an associate professor of radiology until the 1930s. He immigrated to Eretz Israel in May 1933, settled in Jerusalem and brought with him 250 milligrams of radium, and established the "Radium Institute" in Hadassah Hospital for the treatment of malignant diseases. From 1933 until his death he headed the Radium Institute in Hadassah Jerusalem. The department was the only one in the Middle East. The department treated dignitaries from Arab countries, as well as patients from the Jordanian and Egyptian royal families. In 1935 he was appointed professor of radiology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Halberstetter was one of the pioneers of cancer research at the Hebrew University together with Dr. Leonid Dolzhansky. During 1937, he made it a point to come to the Hadassah Hospital (Tel Aviv) once a week in order to examine patients and provide treatment and advice, despite the insecurity that prevailed on the roads at the time. During the War of Independence he refused to leave Jerusalem Despite the shelling, out of a desire to set an example and not encourage an escape from Jerusalem. He died in New York in April 1949.
Hundreds of letters, postcards, and more. general condition very good .
