Theodor Simon Flatau

1860-1937

Theodor Flatau was an otolaryngologist whose specialty was the singing and speaking voice. He established concepts of "phonasthenia" (vocal fatigue) and “dysodia" (change in the singing voice). He was a student of Hermann Gutzmann Sr.

Flatau received his doctorate in medicine in Berlin in 1883. After receiving his doctorate in 1883 he opened a medical practice in Berlin, specializing in ear- and nose-diseases and voice disorders. He became a teacher of voice physiology and the theory of singing at the royal music-academy. In 1926 Flatau became the head of the phoniatric section of the Charité hospital. He was dismissed in 1933 during the holocaust, because he was Jewish. Flatau died in Berlin in 1937.

References

Flatau, T. (1890). Die Laryngoskopie und Rhinoskopie mit Einschluss der Allgemeinen Diagnostik und Therapie," Berlin

Flatau, T. (1894). Die Nasen-, Rachen- und Kehlkopfkrankheiten, Leipzig

Flatau, T. (1894). Die Bauchrednerkunst (with H. Gutzmann), Leipzig

Flatau, T. (1895). Die Nasen-, Rachen- und Kehlkopfkrankheiten, Lehrbuch für Ärzte und Studierende, Leipzig

latau, T. (1896) Die Sprachgebrechen des Jugendlichen Alters, Halle

Flatau, T. (1898) Hygiene des Kehlkopfes und der Stimme; die Stimmstörungen der Sänger, Vienna

Flatau, T. (1899). Die Anwendung des Röntgenschen Verfahrens in der Rhinolaryngologie, Vienna

Flatau, T. (1899). Die Hysterie in ihren Beziehungen zu den oberen Luftwegen und zum Ohre, Halle

Flatau, T. (1899). Die Bauchrednerkunst mit Einschluss der allg. Diagnostik, Berlin

Flatau, T. (1899) Hysteria in its relations to the upper air tract and to the ear The Laryngoscope, 7, 5, 284-290.

Flatau, T. (1900) Prophylaxe der Hals- und Nasenkrankheiten, Munich

Flatau, T. (1902) Intonationsstörungen und Stimmverlust, Berlin

Flatau, T. (1909) translated by H. Strauss. (1909)  XIX. Recent Observations concerning Phonasthenia. Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology, 18, 1, 200-204.