Elliot Philipp Explained

Birth Name:Elliot Elias Philipp
Birth Date:20 July 1915
Birth Place:Stoke Newington, London, England
Parents:Oscar Philipp
Spouse:Lucie Hackenbroch
Family:Julius Philipp (uncle)

Elliot Elias Philipp (20 July 1915 – 27 September 2010) was a British gynaecologist and obstetrician who worked with Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards in developing in-vitro fertilisation and authored The Technique of Sex (1939) with the assistance of Sigmund Freud.[1]

Biography

Phillip was born to a Jewish family in Stoke Newington, the son of Clarisse (née Weil) and Oscar Philipp.[2] [3] His father - who was a cousin to Martha Bernays, the wife of Sigmund Freud - immigrated in 1908 to London from Hamburg to set up the metal trading firm Philipp Brothers. Philipp retired from the National Health Service in 1980 but still saw private patients in Harley Street and operated until the age of 77.[1]

Personal life

In 1939, he married Lucie Ruth Hackenbroch; they had two children, Ann Susan Philipp (1941–1997) and Alan Henry Philipp.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Elliot Philipp . . October 7, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210119033458/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/8049068/Elliot-Philipp.html . January 19, 2021.
  2. Web site: Obituary: Elliot Philipp 1915–2010. Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. 29 May 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190529162314/https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/news/membership-news/obituaries/obituary-elliot-philipp/. dead.
  3. Web site: Oscar Israel Philipp, Hebrew Scholar and Publisher, Dead at 77 . Jewish Telegraph Agency. August 31, 1965 .