Franz Josef Kallmann
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| Franz Josef Kallmann | |
| Born | July 24, 1897 Neumarkt, Silesia |
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| Died | May 12, 1965 (aged 67) New York |
| Nationality | German-American |
| Fields | Psychiatry |
| Known for | Kallmann's syndrome |
Franz Josef Kallmann MD (July 24, 1897 Neumarkt, Silesia – May 12, 1965 New York), a German-born American psychiatrist, was one of the pioneers in the study of the genetic basis of psychiatric disorders. He developed the use of twin studies in the assessment of the relative roles of heredity and the environment in the pathogenesis of psychiatric disease.
As a Jew, he fled Germany in 1933 for the United States. Paradoxically, he had been a student of Dr. Ernst Rüdin, one of the architects of racial hygiene policies in Nazi Germany.
In 1944 he described a congenital endocrine condition (hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism with anosmia) that has come to be known as Kallmann's syndrome.
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| NAME | Kallmann, Franz Josef |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | German-American psychiatrist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neumarkt, Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 1965 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | New York |
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