Jakob Bernhard Bendix (27 May 1863 in Großmühlingen, Anhalt – 1943 in Cairo) was a German pediatrist.
[3] Between 1891 and 1894 he worked as an assistant physician at internist and orthopaedic university hospital in Germany's capital Berlin.
In 1910 he became the author of a pediatrist standard book for students and physicians which was translated into several languages.
The Waldschule für kränkliche Kinder (translated: forest school for sickly children) soon became the prototype for many successors in European countries as well as in the United States.
[5] Since Bendix had a Jewish family background he lost his teaching authorisation after the Nationalsocialists came into power.