Basil Ellenbogen


Basil Kazen Ellenbogen was a British Army officer and consultant physician.

Early life

Ellenbogen was born Basil Katzenellenbogen in Liverpool, the son of Max Katzenellenbogen and Gertrude Hamburg. His brother was the barrister and author Gershon Ellenbogen. He was educated at Liverpool [Collegiate School] and Liverpool University, where he studied medicine, graduating in 1941.

Selected publications

He met his future wife, the author Marianne Strauss, in Düsseldorf, when he was a Captain in the British Army attached to the occupying forces after World War II. They spent the rest of their lives in Liverpool.
He was much more Orthodox in his Judaism than his wife, whose parents had only been irregular visitors to the synagogue.
They had two children.