Franz Penzoldt [SEP] place of birth
Franz Penzoldt
Franz Penzoldt (December 12, 1849 – September 19, 1927) was a German internist and pharmacologist born in Crispendorf, Principality of Reuss-Greiz. He was the father of writer Ernst Penzoldt (1892–1955).
He studied medicine in Tübingen and Jena, where he was a student of Wilhelm Olivier Leube (1842–1922). From 1874 until his retirement in 1920, he worked at the University of Erlangen. In 1875, he obtained his habilitation at Erlangen, where he later became a professor of internal
Ernst Penzoldt
Ernst Penzoldt (14 June 1892 – 27 January 1955) was a German author, sculptor and painter.
Penzoldt was born in Erlangen. He had three older brothers. His father Franz Penzoldt was a German professor of medicine. From 1912 he studied sculpture in Weimar, under German sculpture professor Albin Egger-Lienz. In Weimar he met his friend Günther Stolle. In 1913 Penzoldt and Stolle went to university in Kassel. During World War I Petzoldt was in the army and worked as an emergency medical technician