Max Rosenheim

The Lord Rosenheim
Born	Max Leonard Rosenheim (1908-03-15)15 March 1908
Died	2 December 1972(1972-12-02) (aged 64)
Alma mater	St. John's College, Cambridge
Notable awards	Fellow of the Royal Society[1]

Max Leonard Rosenheim, Baron Rosenheim KBE FRCP FRS (15 March 1908 – 2 December 1972) was a British physician and academic.^[1][2]

Education

Rosenheim was born in London to Ludwig Rosenheim, whose father was from Würzburg, Germany, and Martha Reichenbach, whose father was from St. Gall, Switzerland.^[3] His parents were non-practising Jews and members of the Ethical Society.^[4] Rosenheim had one sister and one brother.^[3]

Rosenheim was educated at Shrewsbury School, St John's College, Cambridge and University College Hospital Medical School.

Career

In 1938, Rosenheim was awarded the Bilton Pollard Travelling Fellowship and worked as research assistant for Dr Fuller Albright at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Rosenheim joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1941 and served in the Middle East and Italy, leaving the Army as a brigadier. From 1945 to 1946, Rosenheim was consultant physician to the Allied Land Forces in South East Asia.

From 1949 and for the next 21 years, Rosenheim was Professor of Medicine at University College Hospital, resigning in 1960 but retaining his links with UCH, acting as a part-time physician. His own particular medical interests were renal disease and hypertension, and he was among the first in his profession to convince his fellows that hypertension could be treated.^[5]

Awards and honours

He delivered the Lumleian lecture at the Royal College of Physicians in 1963 entitled Problems of Chronic Pyelonephritis.^[6] In 1966 he was elected President of the Royal College of Physicians. In 1972 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.^[7][8]

Rosenheim was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1955 Birthday Honours,^[9] he was promoted to Knight Commander (KBE) in the 1967 New Year Honours.^[10] Sir Max was created a life peer on 31 July 1970 taking the title Baron Rosenheim, of the London Borough of Camden.^[11][12]

Other titles and honours include:

• Mr Max Rosenheim (1908–1932)
• Dr Max Rosenheim (1932–1938)
• Dr Max Rosenheim MRCP (1938–1941)
• Dr Max Rosenheim FRCP (1941–1950)
• Professor Max Rosenheim FRCP (1950–1955)
• Professor Max Rosenheim CBE FRCP (1955–1967)
• Professor Sir Max Rosenheim KBE FRCP (1967–1970)
• The Rt Hon Professor The Lord Rosenheim KBE FRCP (1970–1972)
• The Rt Hon Professor The Lord Rosenheim KBE FRCP FRS (1972–1972)

Personal life

Rosenheim never married.

References

1. 1 2 Pickering, G. (1974). "Max Leonard Rosenheim, Baron Rosenheim of Camden 1908-1972". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 20: 348–326. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1974.0015. 
2. ↑ Stokes, JF (2004). "Rosenheim, Max Leonard". The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31626. 
3. 1 2 Robson, Kenneth. "Munks Roll Details for Max Leonard, Baron Rosenheim of Camden Rosenheim". Munk's Roll. Royal College of Physicians. 
4. ↑ George Pickering. 1974. Max Leonard Rosenheim, Baron Rosenheim of Camden. 1908-1972, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society.
5. ↑ "Royal College of Physicians of London-Portraits". National Archives. Retrieved 3 August 2010. 
6. ↑ Rosenheim, M. L. (1963). "Problems of Chronic Pyelonephritis". BMJ. 1 (5343): 1433–1440. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.5343.1433. PMC 2124102. PMID 13974947. 
7. ↑ "Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660–2007". London: The Royal Society. Retrieved 3 August 2010. 
8. ↑ RCP Presidents
9. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 40497. p. 3268. 9 June 1955.
10. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 44210. p. 10. 1 January 1967.
11. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 45163. p. 8587. 4 August 1970.
12. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages