1. Bettina Warburg was a psychiatrist and a member of the Warburg family banking dynasty.
10 Facts About Bettina Warburg
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Bettina Warburg was born in Hamburg, Germany, to Paul Moritz Warburg and Nina Jenny Warburg.
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Bettina Warburg was the younger sister of James Paul Warburg.
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Bettina Warburg attended the Brearley School in New York followed by Bryn Mawr College and the Cornell University Medical School.
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Bettina Warburg trained as a psychiatrist at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in London, after which she worked at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital and at Harvard University's pathology lab.
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Bettina Warburg served as the co-chairman of the Emergency Committee on Relief and Immigration of the American Psychoanalytic Association from 1938 to 1948.
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Between 1938 and 1943, Bettina Warburg was instrumental in organizing and financing the emigration of 154 Jewish psychiatrists and psychoanalysts from Germany and Austria.
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Bettina Warburg married musician Samuel Bonarios Grimson, ex-husband of Malvina Hoffman in 1942, although she continued to use her maiden name in her work.
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Bettina Warburg died at her home in Manhattan on Sunday, November 25,1990, at the age of 90.
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Bettina Warburg is buried in a family plot in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York.