Leonard Abrahamson

Leonard Eliezer "The Abe" Abrahamson (; 29 April 1896 – 29 October 1961) was an Irish cardiologist.

Biography Abrahamson was born either Lazar or Lazarus Pandrick on 29 April 1896 in Siamiatyčy, Grodno Governorate (present-day Siemiatycze, Poland) to Jewish parents David Abrahamson (né Pandrick), a draper, and Frances Abrahamson. (Also cited as Sarah Abrahamson.) Fleeing pogroms, the Abrahamson family emigrated to Newry, County Down in 1899. and consolidated his medical training with a year's postgraduate study in Paris in 1921.

Abrahamson was appointed as a physician to the staff of Mercer's Hospital in 1920 and then Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). He published extensively on cardiology, he was a member of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland and President of the Biological Society in Trinity College Dublin. He was appointed Professor of Medicine at RCSI in 1934, a chair he held until his death in 1961. The Cardiac Club founded in 1922 in Oxford, elected Leonard Abrahamson a member in 1934.

Abrahamson was President of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland (1949), having earlier (1941) been appointed to the first board of the House of Industry hospitals by Seán MacEntee.

Abrahamson attended Bill Beckett, father of Samuel Beckett, on the day of his death from a heart attack on 26 June 1933.

Personal life In 1920, Abrahamson married Tillie Abrahamson (née Nurock). The couple had 1 daughter and 4 sons, including the solicitor and lecturer Max Abrahamson. , Abrahamson was the grandfather of the film director Lenny Abrahamson.

On 29 October 1961, Abrahamson died at his home in Dublin aged 65. Abrahamson was buried at the Dolphins Barn Jewish Cemetery.