Theodor Simon Flatau (4 June 1860 – 1937) was a German physician. Flatau was born in Lyck,

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(today Ełk, Poland), where he attended school. He passed his

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at the Graues Kloster in

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and studied medicine at the Universities of Berlin and

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.Biography at jewishencyclopadia.com
/ref> 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 1894-97Biography
In 1926 Flatau became the head of the phoniatric section of the

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hospital and was dismissed in 1933.phoniatrics-uep.org
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. Diagnostik, Berlin 1899 *Prophylaxe der Hals- und Nasenkrankheiten, Munich 1900 *Intonationsstörungen und Stimmverlust, Berlin 1902

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