| Abraham Flexner  Born: 13-Nov-1866
Birthplace: Louisville, KY
Died: 21-Sep-1959
Location of death: Falls Church, VA
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Educator Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The American College Brother: Simon Flexner (Director of the Rockefeller Institute, b. 1863, d. 1946)
University: Johns Hopkins University (1886)
University: Harvard University
University: University of Berlin
Institute for Advanced Study Director (1930-39)
Institute for Advanced Study Founder (1930)
Dutch Treat Club (1940-46)
Rockefeller Foundation General Education Board (1913-28)
Tonsillectomy
Author of books:
The American College: A Criticism (1908)
Medical Education in the United States and Canada (1910)
A Modern School (1916)
The Burden of Humanism (1928)
Universities: American, English, German (1930)
I Remember: An Autobiography (1940, memoir)
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