Harry Houdini a boarding house on East 79th Street. He was joined by the rest of the family once Rabbi Weiss found permanent housing. As a child, Ehrich Weiss took several jobs, making his public début as a 9-year-old trapeze artist, calling himself "Ehrich, the Prince of the Air". He was also a champion cross country runner in his youth. When Weiss became a professional magician he began calling himself "Harry Houdini", after the French magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, after reading Robert-Houdin's autobiography in 1890. Weiss incorrectly believed that an "i" at the end of a name meant "like" in French. In
Jochen H.H. Ehrich Jochen H.H. Ehrich Jochen H.H. Ehrich (born 5 January 1946) is a German pediatric doctor in the fields of nephrology and tropical medicine, professor emeritus and Former Head of the Department of Paediatric Kidney, Liver and Metabolic Diseases at the Children’s Hospital, Hannover Medical School, in Hannover, Germany. Jochen H.H. Ehrich was born in Braunschweig, Germany. He studied medicine from 1965 to 1971 at the Freie Universität Berlin and at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He performed in 1971 to 1972 a postgraduate study at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in London, UK and received the Diploma in