Prof. Dr. med. Jacob Kaufmann
- Cologne, 30.05.1860
- New York, 13.10.1944
- Member since 1925
- New York
- Specialist in internal medicine and early gastroenterologist
Education and Places of Work
Kaufmann studied medicine at the University of Strasbourg, where he passed the state examination in October 1884.
He undertook his training in internal medicine at the Strasbourg University Medical Clinic under Adolf Kussmaul and Bernhard Naunyn. Kaufmann then interned with Ismar Boas at his Berlin polyclinic and specialist practice for gastrointestinal and metabolic diseases.
Emigration to the USA in 1894
Kaufmann reached New York from Hamburg on 10 October 1894 aboard the HAPAG fast steamer Normannia. He became a US citizen in July 1900.
Workplaces
Jacob Kaufmann worked as an attending physician with a very early focus on gastroenterology at the department of internal medicine of the German Hospital and Dispensary in New York (since 1918, Lenox Hill Hospital). He was one of the consultants at Lenox Hill Hospital, along with Max Einhorn. He also ran his own practice in New York.
Kaufmann was one of the 17 founders of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) in 1897, he served as its president in 1912/13, and was made an honorary member of the AGA in 1941. He was a board member of the American College of Gastroenterology and the Rudolf Virchow Medical Society in the City of New York.
Kaufmann was part of the close circle of students and friends of Ismar Boas. He had been a member of the editorial board of the Archiv für Verdauungs- und Stoffwechselkrankheiten (“Boas Archiv”) since 1923 and remained co-editor of the successor journal Gastroenterologia after the S. Karger publishing house had to leave Berlin and resettled in Switzerland in 1938 under pressure from the Nazi authorities.
Jacob Kaufmann died in New York on 13 October 1944 at the age of 84.
