Amalie Kass


Amalie Moses Kass was an American historian at Harvard Medical School. She wrote about obstetrics and midwifery.

Biography

Amalie Moses was born to Leslie and Helene Moses and reared in Baltimore, Maryland, where she attended Forest Park High School. She attended Wellesley College and graduated in 1949, with high honors in history, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received her master's degree in education in 1963 from Boston University. She had two younger siblings, a brother Alfred H. Moses and a sister Claire Moses Lovett. She had lived in Cambridge, Lincoln, and Belmont, Massachusetts.
In 1949, she married Malcolm Hecht, Jr., with whom she had five children: Anne, Robert, Thomas, Jonathan, and Peter Hecht. The animal carousel for children in the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway is named for Mac Hecht because of her 2013 donation.
In 1975, following Mac's death in 1973, she married Dr. Edward Kass and became stepmother to his three children: Robert, James, and Nancy Kass.

Books and articles

Author of two medical biographies

  1. Midwifery and Medicine in Boston: Walter Channing, M.D., 1786-1876, Northeastern University Press, 2002
  2. Perfecting the World: The Life and Times of Thomas Hodgkin, MD, Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, 1988

    Author of numerous journal articles and encyclopedic entries including

  5. Professional work