Leonard Keene Hirshberg

Leonard K. Hirshberg
Born January 9, 1877
Baltimore
Died 1969
Nationality American
Alma mater Johns Hopkins University
Occupation Physician
Criminal charge Mail fraud

Leonard Keene Hirshberg (January 9, 1877 - 1969), best known as Leonard K. Hirshberg was an American physician who was convicted of mail fraud.[1]

Hirshberg was born in Baltimore from a Jewish family. He obtained his M.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1902.[2][3] He had a successful career as a health writer with his articles appearing in mainstream medical columns and journals. With H. L. Mencken he collaborated on a series of baby care articles, these were published in What You Ought to Know About Your Baby (1910).[4][5]

In September, 1922 Hirshberg was convicted of defrauding investors in a mail fraud investment scam of one millions dollars.[6][7]

Hirshberg was also a skeptic. He was highly critical of the claims of the medium Eusapia Palladino.[8]

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ "Pure Mecncken on Child Care". The Washington Post.
  2. ↑ Schwartz, Julia; Kaye, Solomon Aaron; Simons, John. (1926). Who's Who in American Jewry, Volume 1. Jewish Biographical Bureau. p. 271
  3. ↑ Glassman, Leo M. (1935). Biographical Encyclopaedia of American Jews, 1935. Maurice Jacobs & Leo Glassman. p. 229
  4. ↑ Zuckerman, Mary Ellen. (1998). A History of Popular Women's Magazines in the United States, 1792-1995. Greenwood Press. p. 47
  5. ↑ Lingeman, Richard R. (2006). Double Lives: American Writers' Friendships. Random House. p. 136
  6. ↑ Mencken, Henry Louis; Markel, Howard; Oski, Frank A. (1990). The H.L. Mencken Baby Book: Comprising the Contents of H.L. Mencken's What You Ought to Know About Your Baby. Hanley & Belfus. p. 20
  7. ↑ Smith, Matthew. (2015). Another Person's Poison: A History of Food Allergy. Columbia University Press. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-231-16484-9
  8. ↑ Mencken, Henry Louis; Markel, Howard; Oski, Frank A. (1990). The H.L. Mencken Baby Book: Comprising the Contents of H.L. Mencken's What You Ought to Know About Your Baby. Hanley & Belfus. pp. 18-20
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