Doctor Otto Saddler Hirschfeld MBBS MSc FRACP was born on 24th March 1898 at Brisbane, Colony of Queensland (Australia). He was the eldest child of Eugen Hirschfeld and Annie Saddler. Otto was educated at the Normal School and Brisbane Grammar School. Like his father, Otto became a medical doctor.[1]
After graduating from the University of Queensland (BSc 1919; MSc 1921), Otto studied medicine at the University of Melbourne (MB, BS 1923). After serving as a resident medical officer at the (Royal) Melbourne Hospital for eighteen months, he returned to Brisbane in June 1924 and entered private practice.[2]
On 29th October 1925 in St Andrew's Anglican Church, South Brisbane, he married Joan Mary Eliott, a nurse.[3]
In 1938 he began lecturing in clinical medicine at the University of Queensland; subsequently lecturing in pharmacology and materia medica, in diseases of metabolism, in forensic medicine, and in medicine and pathology. As a member (1951) and fellow (1956) of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, he served on its therapeutic advisory committee.[2]
He was a member (from 1950) of the senate of the University of Queensland, deputy-chancellor (1952) and chancellor (from 1953). In 1956 the University of Melbourne conferred on him an honorary LLD.[2]
He passed away of a ruptured aneurysm of the abdominal aorta on 29th May 1957 at Clayfield, Queensland.[4] He was survived by his wife, two sons and two daughters.
Residence Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Map: Latitude: S27.5. Longitude: E153.0167.
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