| Personal data | |
|---|---|
| Surname | Branson |
| Name | Isidor |
| Birth year | 1854 |
| Death year | 1928 |
| Death month | 12 |
| Death day | 31 |
| Death place | Riga |
| Sex | M |
Branson (Bransohn) Isidor (15(27).09.1854, Mitava – 31.12.1928, Riga) - historian of medicine, orthopaedic doctor.
Isidor Branson was born into the family of merchant Isidor Branson and his wife Isabella (née Kretzer). In 1875 he graduated from the gymnasium in Mitava, in 1881 he graduated from the medical faculty of the University of Dorpat with the title of a physician, and in 1883 he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In 1881- 1884 Isidor Branson was a private practitioner in Subata (Courland province), where he carried out anthropological research, analysing the sanitary situation of the families of 60 men and 40 women from 18 to 70 years of age, presenting the results in a doctoral dissertation on the anthropology of Lithuanians. Trained in Berlin, Leipzig and Vienna in the field of orthopaedics. In 1887-1907 he founded and owned the first orthopaedic institution in the province of Courland in Mitava. From 1900 he worked as a school doctor, and during the bathing seasons he practised in the spa area near Riga. In 1907 he moved to Riga and founded an orthopaedic institute with a school of massage and therapeutic gymnastics. In 1912 he took part in the Baltic congress of doctors in Tallinn. He was the first to systematically study the anthropology of Lithuanians; author of monographs and other studies on orthopaedics and anthropology, compiled biographical dictionaries of doctors from Courland and Livonia (including 125 Jewish doctors), as well as memoirs of his years of study at the University of Dorpat. Consultant in orthopaedic diseases at the Red Cross in Riga. Honourable citizen of Jelgava, honorary member of Jelgava Gymnasium since 1925. Wife - Klara (née Herzenberg); son Robbie (1889-1941), a lawyer, worked in a law office in Riga, died in the ghetto; daughter Ellen Benita (b. 1896), studied in Moscow at the higher women's courses and then in Tartu at the medical faculty (1918).
Selected works.:
Die Ärzte Kurlands von 1825―1900. Ein biographisches Lexikon. Mitau, 1902. 220 S.;
Die Aerzte Kurlands vom Beginn der herzoglichen Zeit bis zur Gegenwart. 2. Ausg. R., 1929. 492 S. Nachdruck: Hannover, 1972;
Die Aerzte Livlands von den aeltesten Zeiten bis zur Gegenwart. Mitau, 1905. 481 S. Nachdruck: Hannover, 1971;
Die Aerzte Estlands vom Beginn der historischen Zeit bis zur Gegenwart. R., 1922. 550 S. Nachdruck: Hannover, 1972.
Die Ärzte Kurlands vom Beginn der herzoglichen Zeit bis zur Gegenwart. R., 1929; Deutschbaltisches biographisches Lexikon 1710―1960. Köln; Wien, 1977. 101 p.
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