Theodor Simon Flatau

Life & Legacy

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.