Artist: Joseph Margulies; Oil on canvas
Edgar B.
Friedenwald was the son of a famous Maryland medical family. The youngest of
five sons of Dr. Aaron Friedenwald, he continued in the tradition of medical
arts, he was born and reared in an atmosphere saturated with medical science,
with a father and two brothers in the profession constantly before him, his
career could have been nothing but medicine.
Educated at the
Zion Lutheran Parochial School, City College, Marston’s University School (now the
MedChi building) and the Maryland College of Pharmacy, he was ready for medical
school in the fall of 1899. Naturally, he went to the school where his father
and brother were on the faculty – the College of Physicians & Surgeons,
later consolidated with the University of Maryland’s Medical School. He
graduated in 1903.
After graduation Dr. Friedenwald took a position as a
mining surgeon in the coal fields of West Virginia. He returned to Baltimore
for a year of postgraduate work in medicine at Johns Hopkins. He returned to
Charleston, West Virginia, devoting himself to general practice for the next
three years.
To further his education, Dr. Friedenwald moved to
Germany for 18 months, returned to Baltimore, and in 1910, began to work at a
full-time pediatrician, affiliating with the College of Physicians &
Surgeons and Mercy Hospital under the late Dr. John Rührah. After the merger with the School of Medicine
of the University of Maryland, he continued clinical pediatrics for more than
forty years.
There was a short period of active duty in the Army
during the Mexican Border Conflict in 1916 and again during World War I, rising
to the rank of Major in the Medical Corps. He retired from active practice and
as the Head of the Department of Pediatrics at Mercy Hospital and from teaching
in 1950.
Dr.
Friedenwald maintains an active interest in sports, civic affairs and medicine. He gave the Library of the Medical and
Chirurgical Faculty his personal collection of almost two hundred volumes on
the history of pediatrics.
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