Biography

About Samuel Benjamin Nathans

In May 1941, Het Joodsche Weekblad published an obituary for Samuel Benjamin Nathans. The same edition also featured a necrology. It included the following: Nathans studied medicine in Amsterdam. He settled as a family doctor in Groningen on 8 March 1908. The town council appointed him municipal police doctor on 1 October 1919, a function he resigned from on 1 May 1939. He taught First Aid to the Police Force. Nathans was the chairman of the Groningen First Aid branch and an executive member of the national union.

Samuel Benjamin Nathans is called a 'well-known and popular figure, a man who was prominent in Church life and who also fulfilled several public functions. For example, he was an acting member of the day-to-day management of the church council, which he belonged to from 1927 onwards.' Earlier, he had already sat on the church council from 1913 to 1919. Furthermore, he was a trustee and a member of the Jewish school committee.

Because of his 'physical condition' he was forced to withdraw from practice and from public life a few years before his death.

Het Joodsche Weekblad of 9 January 1-1942 features an article on the occasion of the unveiling of the tombstone of doctor Samuel Benjamin Nathans.

Het Joodsche Weekblad, 2 May 1941, 4 and 9;
Het Joodsche Weekblad, 9 January 1942, 8


Samuel Benjamin was the son of Mozes Nathans and Schoontje Hirsch.
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