KNOPF, nopf, Siegmund Adolphus, Ger man-American physician: b. Halle, 27 Nov. 1857. He gained his early education at the Higher Municipal School, Halle, was graduated at the Sorbonne (Paris 1890). He gained his medical diplomas at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York (1888) and the Faculty of Medicine, Paris University (1895). He was made pro fessor of medicine, department of phthisio therapy at the New York Post-Graduate Medi cal School (1908), and was appointed visiting physician, Health Department's Riverside Sana torium for Consumptives. He became honorary director, Gaylord Farm Sanatorium, Walling ford, Conn., honorary president, medical board Bruchesi Tuberculosis Institute, Montreal, Canada, etc. He was consulting physician at Saint Gabriel's, N. Y., Sanatorium for Con sumptives; West Mountain Sanatorium, Scran ton, Pa., etc., and is Fellow of the American Academy of Medicine, American Public Health Association, New York Academy of Medicine, Society of American Jurisprudence, American Medico-Psychological Association. Among his
numerous honorary appointments were honorary vice-president, British Congress on Tubercu losis; government delegate International Prison Congress, Paris; vice-president Sec tion V Tuberculosis Congress, Washington (1908). He took a leading part in subsequent tuberculosis propaganda and was first lieu tenant Medical Reserve Corps, United States America. He wrote 'Les Sanatoria Traitement et Prophylaxie de la Phthsie pulmonaire' (the sis of 1895) • (Pulmonary Tuberculosis —Its Modern Prophylaxy, etc.' (1899) ; 'Die Tuber culose als Volks-Krankheit and deren Bekamp fung' (1900) ; the latter work was translated into English and 27 other languages. He also wrote 'Tuberculosis a Preventable and Curable Disease' (1913) and other works, besides nu merous articles contributed to leading medical journals on tuberculosis and kindred subjects.