Joseph Benjamin Stenbuck

Joseph Benjamin Stenbuck (December 22, 1891 – June 1, 1951) was a leading Manhattan surgeon at Sydenham and Harlem Hospital. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Dr. J. Stenbuck, 59, Leader in Surgery. Held High Posts at Sydenham and Harlem Hospitals. |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40F17FC3F5D147B93C0A9178DD85F458585F9 |quote=Dr. Joseph Stenbuck, consulting surgeon, died yesterday in his home, 49 East Ninety-sixth Street, at the age of 59. |publisher=New York Times |date=June 2, 1951, Saturday |accessdate=2008-07-02 ]

Biography

He was born on December 22, 1891 in New York City. [World War I draft registration] [World War II draft registration; Joseph Benjamin Stenbuck] [New York City Birth Index Joseph B. Stenbuck; 22 Dec 1891; 46211] He married Erna Mankiewicz (1901-1979), she was the sister of Joseph L. Mankiewicz. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Joseph Mankiewicz Weds. MGM Producer Marries Rose Stradner, Viennese Actress. |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50C15FA3954107A93CBAB178CD85F4D8385F9 |quote= Joseph L. Mankiewicz, motion picture executive, and Rose Stradner, ... the home of the bridegroom's sister, Mrs. Erma Stenbuck, 49 East Ninety-sixth Street. ... |publisher=New York Times |date=July 29, 1939 |accessdate=2008-07-02 ] [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Erna Mankiewicz Stenbuck, 78, Retired New York Schoolteacher |url= http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F2071FF9355C12728DDDA00994D0405B898BF1D3 |quote=Erna Mankiewicz Stenbuck, a retired, teacher in the New York City schools, died Aug. 1 in Villach, Austria, where she had lived for several years. She was 78 years old. ... She was married in ... to Dr. Joseph Stenbuck, a New York City surgeon who died in 1951. They had no children. She is survived by a brother, Joseph L. ... |publisher=New York Times |date=August 19, 1979 |accessdate=2008-07-02 ]

He was accused of working for Soviet intelligence and acting as a mail drop and receiver of stolen blueprints for Robert Osman in 1933. [cite book |last=Haynes |first=John Earl |authorlink= |coauthors=Harvey Klehr |title=Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America |year=1999 |publisher=Yale University Press |quote=Stenbuck, Joseph: acted as a mail drop and receiver of stolen blueprints for Robert Osman in 1933. | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=M8p00bTFvRkC&pg=RA2-PA381&lpg=RA2-PA381&dq=Joseph+Stenbuck&source=web&ots=0BiXGMMJdU&sig=oeG7G6zBhq6kjlPTjlzN8eeaQGk&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result |isbn= ] [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=U.S. Corporal Gets Two Years as Red Spy. $10,000 Fine May Extend Term to 20 Years. |quote=Corporal Ralph Osman of the United States Army was found guilty today of violating the Espionage Act and sentenced to two years' hard labor and fined $10,000, which, if unpaid, amounts to an additional eighteen years' imprisonment. ... He received funds from Harry Duryea, whose address was care of Dr. Joseph Stenbuck, 1185 Park Avenue, New York. Osman said Duryea visited him here twice, ...|url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0917F93E5B137A93C3AA1783D85F478385F9 |publisher=New York Times |date=August 31, 1933 |accessdate=2008-07-02 ] That same year he was working in Harlem Hospital. In 1934 he was President of Mount Sinai Hospital Alumni Executive Board. [cite web |url=http://www.mssm.edu/alumni/about/past_presidents.shtml |title=Past Alumni Executive Board Presidents |accessdate=2008-07-02 |quote= |publisher=Mount Sinai Hospital |accessdate=2008-07-02 |] In 1939 he was made a medical officer (battalion chief) earning $5,000 a year in the New York City Fire Department. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Fire Department |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60817F6345B11728DDDA80894DF405B898FF1D3 |quote=Dr. Joseph B. Stenbuck is [appointed] as a medical officer (battalion chief) with compensation at the rate of $5,000 per annum, |publisher=New York Times |date=July 1, 1939 |accessdate=2008-07-02 ]

Publications

*cite journal|last=Stenbuck |first=Joseph |authorlink= |journal = |coauthors= |title=Traction in a Thomas Splint |year= |publisher= |quote= | url=http://www.ejbjs.org/cgi/reprint/15/4/1015.pdf |isbn=
*cite journal|last=Stenbuck |first=Joseph |authorlink= |journal =The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery |coauthors= |title=Plaster of Paris Butress |year=1933 |publisher= |quote=The Thomas splint, with traction by means of a simple Spanish windlass mechanism, affords a simple, efficient, and economical method of treatment for fracture of the humerus. There is occasionally, however, the disadvantage of too great a localized pressure against the chest wall with accompanying pain and skin necrosis. This disadvantage may be overcome by the application of a plaster-of-Paris buttress (which is a modified jacket), allowing for the diffuse distribution of pressure of the ring of the Thomas splint and the resultant relief of pain. | url=http://www.ejbjs.org/cgi/reprint/15/4/1015.pdf |isbn=

References

Further reading

* New York FBI report, 19 January, 1945, Comintern Apparatus file, serial 3899.