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Arthur Nicolaier

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German internist (1862-1942)

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Arthur Nicolaier was a German Jewish internist. Most famous for his work on discovering a cure for tetanus which was an extremely fatal disease if it wasn't treated in the correct way. "Beiträge zur Aetiologie des Wundstarrkrampfes".

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Arthur Nicolaier was a German Jewish internist. Most famous for his work on discovering a cure for tetanus which was an extremely fatal disease if it wasn't treated in the correct way. "Beiträge zur Aetiologie des Wundstarrkrampfes". He was a senior physician at the Göttingen university hospital 1897-1900 and then moved to Berlin. In 1921, he was appointed as an extraordinary professor of internal medicine at Charité. He was removed from office in 1933 when the Nazis passed laws that made it illegal for Jews to be civil servants. He committed suicide by an overdose of morphine in 1942 when he learned that he was about to be deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

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Lived 1862 to 1942 · aged 80
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