Author Biographical Info
Hilde Bruch was born in Dulken, Germany on March 11, 1904; her family was Jewish. An uncle encouraged her to study medicine and she graduated from Albert Ludwig University with a doctorate in 1929. She took academic and research positions with the University of Kiel and then the University of Leipzig, but left academia for private pediatric practice in 1932 because of rising anti-Semitism. She had already begun a career in pediatric physiology before she left Germany in 1933 after Hitler came into power. She then spent a year in England, where she worked at the East End Maternity Hospital, which served a Jewish community in an impoverished part of London. She moved to the United States in 1934 and worked at the Babies’ Hospital at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. She obtained her American medical license in 1935 and, in 1937, began research on childhood obesity, the beginning of her career studying eating disorders. She became an American citizen in 1940.
From 1941 to 1943 Bruch studied psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore before returning to New York to open her own psychiatric practice and teach at Columbia University. She took a position in psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in 1964 and remained in Houston for the rest of her life. She died on December 15, 1984.
Publication Date(s)
November 21, 2022
Keywords
Eating disorders, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Physiology, Social psychology
Abstract
The Hilde Bruch, MD papers contains reprints, books, office files, patient records. The early gift of books and reprints, and the posthumous donation of books and papers have been integrated into the larger group of office records, making the total size of the collection 56 cubic feet. The arrangement includes office files, patient records dating from the 1940's, correspondence from colleagues as well as hundreds of letters from lay persons acquainted with Dr. Bruch's work on eating disorders. See more at MS 007 .
Recommended Citation
Bruch, Hilde (1928-1984), "MS 007 Guide to Hilde Bruch, MD Papers (1928-1984)" (2022). Manuscript Finding Aids. 22.
https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/findingaids/22
Comments
Processing information: The collection was inventoried again in 2020 based on the original arrangement. Boxes were re-numbered throughout the collection across series. Folders were numbered within each box. Materials were consolidated to fill boxes, reducing the total number of boxes for the collections.