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Sigmungd Otto Orsenhelm, 1871-1955
Obituary by Harold King Published:01 November 1956Otto Rosenheim was born at Wurzburg in Germany on 29 November in the year 1871. He married Mary Christine Tebb, a daughter of William Tebb of Rede Hall, Burstow, in July 1910, and died in his Hampstead home on 7 May 1955, his wife dying in 1953 in her 85th year. Rosenheim chose the University in his home town of Wurzburg in which to study for his degree of Doctor of Philosophy and he worked under Tafel in Emil Fischer’s laboratory. Part of the course he spent in Bonn and then returned to W urzburg to complete his degree. The title of his thesis was ‘On the oxidation of jfr-hydroxyquinoline’. His examiner was Hantzsch who had succeeded Fischer in the chair of chemistry and Rosenheim was the first student to be examined by Hantzsch. The oral examination was a difficult one, but Rosenheim came through with flying colours. A year’s military service in the horse artillery then followed, Rosenheim being excluded from taking officer rank. He then went to Geneva to work with Graebe and there met Liebermann, Pictet and Kehrmann. He was called up for a m onth’s military training in Germany but asked to be excused as he was finishing his course. He had already made up his mind to leave Germany and go to England, where a cousin had already settled, as antisemitism was abhorrent to him. He wrote to W. H. Perkin at Manchester and told him of his desire and Perkin invited him to come to work at the University. Rosenheim left Switzerland for Germany to settle his affairs and he is recorded as having entered for research in chemistry in Manchester University for the session 1894-1895. In 1896 Rosenheim joined Philip Schidrowitz in practice as analytical and consulting chemists at a laboratory in Chancery Lane in London. Dr Schidrowitz writes of Rosenheim at that time as a modest and pleasant young man much interested in his work especially in that of a scientific character; he was a remarkable craftsman, excelling in glass-blowing, photography and in manipulative procedures. His main interest was, however, in biological chemistry. This last sentence aptly summarizes Rosenheim’s outlook and career; he was a born biochemist and a deeply read student and master of the subject throughout his life.

National Portrait Gallery

Otto Rosenheim by Walter Stoneman bromide print, 1931

Personal Life

His wife Mary Chrsitine Tebb was the daughter of William Tebb and sister of Florence Joy Tebb who married Raphael Weldon. His brother Ludovic Rosenheim was the father of Max Rosenheim.

Max Leonard Rosenheim

Baron (1970) KBE (1967) CBE (1955) BA Cantab (1929) Bchir (1932) MB (1933) MRCP (1934) MD (1938) FRCP (1941) PRCP (1966-1972) FRS (1972)

05 March 1908 – 02 December 1972

Max Rosenheim was born in Hampstead. His father, Ludovic Rosenheim (1869-1915), the son of a wine merchant in Wurzburg, had left Germany as a young man and was a naturalized British subject. He was a member of the London Stock Exchange but had wide interests and in his early years in London attended evening classes on chemistry, geology and allied subjects. A paternal uncle was Sigmund Otto Rosenheim, FRS. A great-uncle, Max Rosenheim, was a distinguished art collector and antiquarian living in England. His mother, who lived to be 90, dying in 1971, was the daughter of Karl Reichenbach of St Gall, Switzerland, a general practitioner who played an important part in the life of the community. Max had a sister, Adèle Helen, later Mrs Van Noorden, and a brother, Charles, who joined the Army in 1939, becoming a Major in the Welsh Regiment and being killed in action in 1945, gaining the MC posthumously.

Publications
The Sources of Supply of Vitamins A and D O. ROSENHEIM & T. A. WEBSTER Published: 24 September 1927

A Lipoclastic accelerating Action of Serum as an Index in Pathological Conditions J. A. Shaw-Mackenzie, O. Rosenheim First Published  March 1, 1910

On the preparation of cholesterin from brain Otto Rosenheim First published: 13 March 1906

Choline in cerebro-spinal fluid Otto Rosenheim First published: 02 July 1907

''On pancreatic lipase. III. The separation of lipase from its co-enzyme'' by O. Rosenheim 1910

A lipoclastic accelerating action of serum as an index in pathological conditions by J.A. Shaw-Mackenzie and O. Rosenheim 1910

German Wikipedia

De: Otto Rosenheim