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The physician Richard Koch was born in Frankfurt in 1882. After medical studies in Munich, Lausanne, Heidelberg, and Berlin, he served in a reserve military hospital during World War One. He was married to Maria Rosenthal, and the couple had five children, all born in Frankfurt. - Richard Koch had a successful career as a physician; as a professor of medicine and medical history at the Goethe University; and as the medical editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. His areas of medical interest included infectious disease, history of medicine, and balneology. In 1936, he and his wife left Germany, first for Brussels and, after obtaining Soviet citizenship, for Moscow. In 1937, he was assigned to a medical post in Essentuki in the Caucasus. Except for a year during the war when he was evacuated to Tsqaltubo in Georgia. Richard Koch remained in Essentuki until his death in 1949.

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Richard Koch, Leo Baeck Institute, F 001 AR 3744.