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Adolf Heilborn
1873–1941
A doctor by training and a writer by calling, he brought science, travel, and world cultures to a broad readership. His life and work reflect both wide curiosity and the growing dangers faced by Jewish intellectuals in Nazi Germany.
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Unter den Wilden: Entdeckungen und Abenteuer
by Adolf Heilborn
About the author
Born in Berlin on January 11, 1873, he studied medicine and natural sciences, earned a medical doctorate, and worked not only as a physician but also as a prolific writer and translator. Reliable biographical sources describe him as a German doctor, writer, and translator, and note that his interests ranged into ethnology and popular science.
He also spent time as a ship's doctor and world traveler before later working in Berlin as a physician, editor, and translator. His books helped present scientific and ethnological subjects to general readers, and he translated major French authors including Alphonse Daudet and Guy de Maupassant.
In National Socialist Germany, he was persecuted for being Jewish. He died in Berlin on October 16, 1941, and his story now stands as both a record of literary and scientific curiosity and a reminder of the lives destroyed under Nazi rule.