Theodore Proskauer, M. D. Theodore Proskauer, M.D., a regularly practicing physician in the Porter block, Grand Rapids, but who devotes his talents to such specialties as diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, in the treatment of which he has met with more than ordinary success, was born July 2, 1865, in Prussia, Germany, and in that country received his education and grew to manhood. He passed from the minor schools to the gymnasium at Kreuzburg (which corresponds with American high school), an d there passed nine years in its curriculum. He next attended the Medical college of Berlin five years, received a license to practice medicine in 1889, and in the same year received his diploma as M. D. at Leipsic.He was then appointed assistant physician in an eye and ear hospital at Nurenberg, Bavaria, and held this position until 1891, when he established a practice on his individual account, which he followed in Germany until 1896, making specialties of the eye and ear, and while thus engaged prepared several valuable articles on scientific subjects, as follows: (1) Ein Beitrag zur myopiestatisik, in Graefe’s Archio fur Ophthal. (2) Ptosis congenital. (3) Ein Beitrag Autophthalmoskopic, in Centralblatt fur pract. (4) Embryonen vonoxynris in der Nase in Zeitschrift fur obrenheilkundes. (5) Treatment of Trashoma, in Centralblatt fur pract. Augenhlkder --the doctor being especially proficient in his original method of operating upon cataract. In 1896 Dr. Proskauer came to America and several months resided in New York city. In 1897 he came to Grand Rapids, and has already established an enduring fame and a remunerative practice along the line of his specialties. The doctor is still unmarried, and is the only representative of his family in America. Salo and Helen (Kalisher) Prooskauer, the parents of the doctor, were both born in Prussia, but the mother was called from earth at the age of fifty-one years; the father is now a resident of Breslau, and is engaged in merchandizing. Of their four children, Ignatz, the brother of the doctor, is a merchant in Hirschberg, and is married; the two sisters are Julia and Adalia, and are still single.

Transcriber: Barb Jones
Created: 21 January 2009