Theodor Simon Flatau
German physician (1860–1937)
Theodor Simon Flatau (4 June 1860 – 1937) was a German physician.
Flatau was born in Lyck, East Prussia (today Ełk, Poland), where he attended school. He passed his Abitur at the Graues Kloster in Berlin and studied medicine at the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg. In 1883 Flatau started to work as a physician in Berlin, specialized on ear- and nose-diseases. He became a teacher of voicephysiology and the theory of singing at the royal music-academy and studied Philosophy and Psychology in 1894-97
In 1926 Flatau became the head of the phoniatric section of the Charité hospital and was dismissed in 1933.
Flatau died in Berlin.
Publications
"Die Laryngoskopie und Rhinoskopie mit Einschluss der Allgemeinen Diagnostik und Therapie," Berlin, 1890
Die Nasen-, Rachen- und Kehlkopfkrankheiten, Leipzig 1894
Die Bauchrednerkunst (with H. Gutzmann), Leipzig 1894
Die Nasen-, Rachen- und Kehlkopfkrankheiten, Lehrbuch für Ärzte und Studierende, Leipzig 1895
Die Sprachgebrechen des Jugendlichen Alters, Halle 1896
Hygiene des Kehlkopfes und der Stimme; die Stimmstörungen der Sänger, Vienna 1898
Die Anwendung des Röntgenschen Verfahrens in der Rhinolaryngologie, Vienna 1899
Die Hysterie in ihren Beziehungen zu den oberen Luftwegen und zum Ohre, Halle 1899
Die Bauchrednerkunst mit Einschluss der allg.
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