Felix Huch

Felix Huch (6 September 1880 to 6 July 1952) was a German physician who worked in the public health service and by the time he retired had reached the rank of Obermedizinalrat, roughly a chief medical consultant. Alongside his medical career he was a passionate amateur musician and musicologist, and in middle age he began a second career writing biographical novels about musicians. His books on Mozart and Beethoven, including a 1927 volume on the young Beethoven, were popular, were reprinted several times during his lifetime and after his death, and have been translated into languages including Dutch, Japanese, Russian and Turkish. He is entered here for his service as a public-health physician.