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I was brought up in a German family after World War II. My father’s family had lived as small landlords with intense bonds to the land, its people, and the animals around them in former German Silesia, and were deracinated war refugees. My mother’s family was made up of four generations of physicians. The most prominent family member was my maternal grandfather (Fig. 13.1), born in 1870, who became a physician as his father had been. He joined the first German expedition to the South Pole led by Dr. Drygalski, which voyaged on a sailboat from 1901 to 1903. After returning from his amazing adventure, he settled in Partenkirchen, Bavaria, in the south of Germany because he loved the mountains and was an excellent alpinist.
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von Mutius, E. (2011). Life Comes to One. In: Schwartz, D. (eds) Medicine Science and Dreams. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9538-1_13
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