David Ezechiel Cohen was a son of Ezechiel Godert Cohen and Ester Abraham. He married in 1921 with the history teacher Sophia Louisa de Sterke.
David Ezechiel Cohen studied medicine in Amsterdam and sat for his medical finals on 15 February 1913. On 18 December 1913 he took his PhD degree in Amsterdam for his thesis on the topography of bone formed in atrophic eyes. He subsequently specialized in…