{{Short description|British Army officer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Basil Ellenbogen | image = | caption = | birth_name = Basil Katzenellenbogen | birth_date = 22 December 1917 | birth_place = | death_date = 26 January 1996 | death_place = | citizenship = | other_names = | known_for = | education = Liverpool Collegiate School | alma_mater = Liverpool University | occupation = Consultant physician | years_active = | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | boards = | spouse = Marianne Strauss | partner = | children = | parents = Max Katzenellenbogen<br /> Gertrude Hamburg | relatives = Gershon Ellenbogen (brother)<br /> Kate Whiteman (niece) | website = }}
'''Basil Kazen Ellenbogen''' (22 December 1917 - 26 January 1996) was a British Army officer and consultant physician.
==Early life== Ellenbogen was born Basil Katzenellenbogen in Liverpool, the son of Max Katzenellenbogen and Gertrude Hamburg. His brother was the barrister and author Gershon Ellenbogen. He was educated at Liverpool Collegiate School and Liverpool University, where he studied medicine, graduating in 1941.<ref name=munksroll>{{cite web|title=Lives of the fellows: Basil Kazen Ellenbogen|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/1422|website=munksroll|accessdate=5 November 2015}}</ref>
==Selected publications== * ''A Therapeutic Index'', by Clarence Montague Miller and Basil Kazen Ellenbogen (1955)
==Personal life== He met his future wife, the author Marianne Strauss (died December 1996), in Düsseldorf, when he was a Captain in the British Army attached to the occupying forces after World War II.<ref name="WrightHantrais2000">{{cite book|author1=Sue Wright|author2=Linda Hantrais|author3=Jolyon Howorth|title=Language, Politics, and Society: The New Languages Department : Festschrift in Honour of Professor D.E. Ager|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TlN0QLK4LhUC&pg=PA29|accessdate=5 November 2015|year=2000|publisher=Multilingual Matters|isbn=978-1-85359-487-8|page=29}}</ref> They spent the rest of their lives in Liverpool.
He was much more Orthodox in his Judaism than his wife, whose parents had only been irregular visitors to the synagogue.<ref name="BerghahnLässig2008">{{cite book|author1=Volker Rolf Berghahn|author2=Simone Lässig|title=Biography Between Structure and Agency: Central European Lives in International Historiography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v_J_vnmZETYC&pg=PA209|accessdate=5 November 2015|date=1 January 2008|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=978-1-84545-518-7|page=209}}</ref>
They had two children.<ref name=munksroll />
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