Leonard Abrahamson
Leonard Abrahamson, known as 'the Abe', was an Irish surgeon specialising in cardiology.
Born in Odessa, Ukraine, he was, from the 1920s to the 1960s, described as the "natural leader of the Jewish community" in Ireland.
Educated at the Christian Brothers school in Newry, Abrahamson initially went to Trinity College Dublin on a scholarship in Gaelic and Hebrew. He transferred to the School of Physic and consolidated his medical training with a year's postgraduate study in Paris in 1921.
The Cardiac Club founded in 1922 in Oxford, elected Leonard Abrahamson a member in 1934. Abrahamson was President of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, having earlier been appointed to the first board of the House of Industry hospitals by Seán McEntee.
He was married to Max Nurock's sister, Matilde.
He was father of prominent lawyer Max Abrahamson and grandfather of film director Lenny Abrahamson.
