Abraham Albert Hijmans van den Bergh was the son of Benjamin Hijmans and Berdina van den Bergh. Abraham Albert was married and had three children. His wife and children survived the war.
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Abraham Albert Hijmans van den Bergh studied medicine in Ghent and in Leiden. He sat for his medical finals on 8 March 1895. On 21 May 1896 he obtained his doctoral degree on the thesis 'The toxicity of urine and the theory of auto-intoxication'. He settled in Rotterdam where he became a doctor in the Coolsingelziekenhuis.
In 1922, he was appointed lecturer in internal medicine at the University of Groningen. In 1912, he held his inaugural lecture on 'The thinking in pathology and clinic'. In 1918, he accepted the same post in Utrecht, where his inaugural lecture was entitled 'On the constitution'.
Abraham Albert Hijmans van den Bergh became very well-known through his studies on diabetes, life insurance medicine and colourants of the gallbladder. On this last subject he became known for the 'Hijmans van den Bergh-reaction' to determine indirect bilirubin. He acquired great fame with the publication of his 'Textbook for internal medicine' in 1940 in collaboration with his colleagues Cornelis Douwe de Langen and Isidore Snapper.
While in hiding with his colleague Cornelis Douwe de Langen, Abraham Albert Hijmans van den Bergh took his own life.
J.H. Coppenhagen, Anafiem Gedoe‘iem. Overleden joodse artsen uit Nederland 1940-1945 (Rotterdam 2000) 21, 24 (noot16), 34 and 101