Fritz Kahn

Fritz Kahn (29 September 1888 – 14 January 1968) was a German-Jewish in early 1941, with the help of Albert Einstein, they were able to emigrate to the US, where they settled in Manhattan.

After the war, Kahn spent several long periods in Europe between 1948 and 1950, among other places in Ascona, but when it seemed unlikely he would soon be able to return there permanently, he once more settled in New York. He had a house in Atlantic Beach, Long Island and a studio in Manhattan. After his wife left him, he lived with Ellen Fussing, a Danish-American colleague, with whom he finally returned to Europe. Until 1960 they lived primarily in Switzerland, among other places in Lugano. In 1960, on vacation in Agadir, he survived a serious earthquake unharmed—in a sarcophagus. For example, he compared the ear to an automobile. attracting online attention. As pioneering work in infographics, Kahn's illustrations were returned to public attention in 2009 by Uta and Thilo von Debschitz's monograph Fritz Kahn – Man Machine / Maschine Mensch, and the first exhibition of his work was held in 2010 at the Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum at the Charité.

Notes and drafts for Kahn's unfinished book The Natural History of Palestine are preserved in the Arthur and Fritz Kahn Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History in New York.

Published works

Das Versehen der Schwangeren in Volksglaube und Dichtung. Frankfurt: Sauerländer, 1912. Dissertation, University of Berlin. Die Milchstraße. Kosmos, 1914 Die Zelle. Kosmos, 1919 Die Juden als Rasse und Kulturvolk. Berlin: Welt, 1920 Das Leben des Menschen. 5 vols. Stuttgart: Franckh’sche Verlagshandlung, 1922, 1924, 1926, 1929, 1931 Unser Geschlechtsleben – ein Führer und Berater für jedermann. Rüschlikon/Zurich: Albert Müller, 1937 Der Mensch gesund und krank. 2 vols. Zurich/Leipzig: Albert Müller, 1939 Der Mensch, Bau und Funktionen unseres Körpers. Rüschlikon/Zurich: Albert Müller, 1940 Man in Structure and Function. Tr. and ed. George Rosen. New York: Knopf, 1943. First Aid – Popular. New York: Krause, 1942 Man in Structure and Function. 2 vols. New York: Knopf, 1943 Das Atom – endlich verständlich. Zurich: Albert Müller, 1949 Das Buch der Natur. 2 vols. Rüschlikon/Zurich: Albert Müller, 1952 Design of the Universe: The Heavens and the Earth. New York: Crown, 1954 Die Weltuhr – aus der Geschichte des Erdballs. Lux Lesebogen 209. Murnau: Lux, 1955 Vogelvolk – vom Ur-Vogel bis zum Adler. Lux Lesebogen 219. Murnau: Lux, 1956 Muss Liebe blind sein – Schule des Liebes- und Eheglücks, Albert Müller, Rüschlikon-Zürich 1957 Sternenrätsel – von der Arbeit des Astronomen, Lux Lesebogen Nr. 237, Murnau 1957 Die neun Planeten – Kinder der Sonne. Lux Lesebogen 247. Murnau: Lux, 1957 Kräfte der Natur – Winde, Wolken, Wüsten. Lux Lesebogen 262. Murnau: Lux, 1958 The Human Body. New York: Random House, 1965