Arnold Baumgarten

Arnold Baumgarten (24 September 1879 – 23 January 1939) was a part Jewish doctor and hospital director in Vienna who fled to China after Austria's Anschluss from Nazi Germany.

Early life Arnold Baumgarten was born in Vienna on 24 September 1879, the son of the merchant Johann Jakob Baumgarten and Mathilde, née Kollinsky. In 1907 he was married Johanna (born 6 May 1879 Brünn/Mähren), née Horvath. They had the two sons Johann (born 28 September 1907 in Pörtschach) and Friedrich Robert (born 10 July 1910 in Pörtschach), who studied medicine at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1936.

Career After further training, Baumgarten worked as assistant at the prosectura of the Rudolfstiftung Hospital with the pathologist Prof. Richard Paltauf (1858-1924). In 1904, he published the paper "„Ein Beitrag zur Pathogenität des Bazillus Friedländer und zur Histogenese der Mikulicz´schen Zellen“ ("A Contribution to the Pathogenicity of the Bacillus Friedländer and to the Histogenesis of Mikulicz's Cells"). Until 1907, he practiced medicine at the Karolinen-Kinderspital at Sobieskigasse 31 in Vienna 9 with the lecturer and later professor Wilhelm Knoepfelmacher (1866-1938), where he published "A Case of Peripheral Unilateral Hypoglossal Palsy with Hemiatrophy of the Tongue." In 1906 he became member of the Society of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, and the Society of Pediatrics, in Vienna. and then in the same year in Pörtschach am Wörthersee in Carinthia as community physician and physician of the health resort. In 1911, he was appointed medical officer in the state of Carinthia, from which position he resigned as early as 1912.

Baumgarten was the director of Vienna's largest city hospital (1,000 beds) and the head of the Austrian State health department. From 1923 to 1938 he was the Director of the "Krankenhaus Lainz" in Wien

In early 1938 he joined the Verein für Geschichte der Stadt Wien as a member, and in January 1938 he was decorated by the mayor of the city of Vienna. )''