Abraham Flexner Born: 13-Nov-1866 Birthplace: Louisville, KY Died: 21-Sep-1959 Location of death: Falls Church, VA Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Occupation: Educator Nationality: United States Executive summary: The American College Brother: Simon Flexner (Director of the Rockefeller Institute, b. 1863, d. 1946)
University: Johns Hopkins University (1886) University: Harvard University University: University of Berlin
Institute for Advanced Study Director (1930-39) Institute for Advanced Study Founder (1930) Dutch Treat Club (1940-46) Rockefeller Foundation General Education Board (1913-28) Tonsillectomy
Author of books:
The American College: A Criticism (1908) Medical Education in the United States and Canada (1910) A Modern School (1916) The Burden of Humanism (1928) Universities: American, English, German (1930) I Remember: An Autobiography (1940, memoir)
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