Sergius Ingerman

Sergius Ingerman (August 15, 1868 – February 18, 1943) was a Ukrainian-born Jewish-American socialist and physician.

Life Ingerman was born on August 15, 1868, in Kamenetz-Podolsk, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire, the son of Michael Ingerman and Tessia Bleitzstein.

Ingerman went to the University of Bern in Bern, Switzerland, graduating from there with an M.D. in 1889. He worked as an intern in the university's medical faculty in 1890. In 1891, he immigrated to America. He was an instructor in nose and throat diseases in the New York University College of Medicine from 1903 to 1906. In 1906, he returned to Russia and worked as an assistant in the ear department of the Women's Medical College in St. Petersburg. He returned to America in 1909 and to the New York University College of Medicine as an instructor in the eye department. He was also an ophthalmologist in Beth David Hospital, laryngologist for the Workmen's Circle Tubercular Sanatorium in Liberty, New York, for 22 years, and author of a study on malignant tumors in the nasal cavity. He was president of the Russian Medical Society from 1924 to 1935, chairman of the advisory board of the Workmen's Circle Medical Department, and a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the New York County Medical Society. He opposed the Socialist Party's anti-war stance in World War I, and was a strong interventionist during World War II.

In 1890, Ingerman married Anna Amitin. They had one child, Dr. Eugenia. Raphael Abramovitch, Abraham Cahan, Viktor Chernov, Algernon Lee, and Friedrich Stampfer spoke at his funeral.