Michael’s father, Richard Hamburger, was a distinguished Professor of Paediatrics in Berlin, described by fellow paediatrician Käthe Beutler as “a great doctor, simply nice as a human being, open.” But the 1933 Law of the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service revoked his license to teach, and Richard was forced out of the Civil Service, prompting the family’s emigration. Michael Hamburger OBE (1941, Modern Languages) was a translator, poet, critic, memoirist, academic, and refugee, who came up to the House in 1941 to read French and German.īorn in Berlin, the Hamburger family fled from Berlin in 1933 to Edinburgh, and subsequently London, Michael describing in 2000 that the family had been otherwise “condemned to death”.
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