Richard Hans Kahn

born Prague, July 8, 1876; died 1941

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Brother of Marianne Kahn, Professor of Physiology at the Deutsches Institut in Prague, later at the University of Prague.

Richard Kahn studied at the German University in Prague. He conducted research at the Physiological Institute in Prague, obtained his Habilitation in 1904, was created a associate professor in 1915 and in 1935/36 associate professor of physiology at the German University in Prague. He published many books and articles on a wide range of subjects, including the brain and nervous system, psychology and mental disorder, electrocardiography, and psychotherapy.

No direct contact with Schenker is known. His sister, Marianne, was a pupil of Schenker's from 1907 to 1935. He is mentioned in a letter to Otto Erich Deutsch of August 5, 1930 (WSLB-Hds_191_566). A second sister, Trude, was a senior official at the Löw Sanatorium in Vienna.

Source:

  • Kreuter, Alma, Deutschsprachige Neuologen und Psychiater (Munich: K. G. Saur, 1996), pp. 684-86

Contributors

  • Ian Bent and William Drabkin

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Correspondence

  • WSLB-Hds 191.566 Handwritten letter from Schenker to Deutsch, dated August 5, 1930

    Replying to Deutsch’s letter of July 30, Schenker warmly recommends his long-standing pupil Marianne Kahn as a teacher for Deutsch’s brother. -- He then comments at length on a newspaper article by Richard Benz (of which Deutsch had sent a clipping), using a medical metaphor to describe the current pathological state of music.