Basil Ellenbogen

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Basil Ellenbogen
Born
Basil Katzenellenbogen

22 December 1917
Died26 January 1996
NationalityBritish
Education Liverpool Collegiate School
Alma mater Liverpool University
OccupationConsultant physician
Spouse(s) Marianne Strauss
Parent(s)Max Katzenellenbogen
Gertrude Hamburg
Relatives Gershon Ellenbogen (brother)
Kate Whiteman (niece)

Basil Kazen Ellenbogen (22 December 1917 - 26 January 1996) was a British Army officer and consultant physician.

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Early life

Ellenbogen was born Basil Katzenellenbogen in Liverpool, the son of Max Katzenellenbogen and Gertrude Hamburg. His brother was the barrister and author Gershon Ellenbogen. He was educated at Liverpool Collegiate School and Liverpool University, where he studied medicine, graduating in 1941. [1]

Selected publications

Personal life

He met his future wife, the author Marianne Strauss (died December 1996), in Düsseldorf, when he was a Captain in the British Army attached to the occupying forces after World War II. [2] They spent the rest of their lives in Liverpool.

He was much more Orthodox in his Judaism than his wife, whose parents had only been irregular visitors to the synagogue. [3]

They had two children. [1]

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References

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  2. Sue Wright; Linda Hantrais; Jolyon Howorth (2000). Language, Politics, and Society: The New Languages Department : Festschrift in Honour of Professor D.E. Ager. Multilingual Matters. p. 29. ISBN   978-1-85359-487-8 . Retrieved 5 November 2015.
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