Abramovich David Grigoryevich was born on 4 April 1892 in Riga. He received his education at the universities of Berlin and Tartu (1914–19). During World War I he was drafted as a military physician. In the interwar period (1922–1941) he worked as an internist in Riga. At the beginning of World War II, he left for Saratov, where he was appointed assistant at the Saratov Medical Institute and consultant at an evacuation hospital. In 1945, he returned to Riga, where he worked for five years as an internist at the 3rd City Hospital. During the same period, he received the degree of Candidate of Medical Sciences and became an associate professor at the Latvian State Institute for the Improvement of Physicians (LSIIP). After 1950, he served as chief physician of the Jelgava Hospital, head of the city health department, and chief internist of the Basin Hospital. In 1967, he was awarded the title of Honoured Physician of the Latvian SSR. Author of research in the field of internal medicine. Died on 28 March 1975.

(E. Vater, Jewish Physicians in Latvia 1918–1996, (Riga: Latvian Medical Academy, 1997), p. 148)