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Robert Remak
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Robert Remak (Polish/German)
Date, Country, and City of Birth
July 26 or 30, 1815, Posen/Poznań, Germany (now Poland)
Date, Country, and City of Death
August 29, 1865, Bad Kissingen, Germany
History of Life
After having received private tuition, Remak went to school in Posen until 1833. In the same year, he started studying medicine in Berlin with, among others, the famous Johannes Müller (1801–1858). He also became inspired by the autopsies carried out by the prosector, Robert Froriep (1804–1861). Already during this time, he published studies about the microscopic structure of the nervous system, which was the topic of his doctoral dissertation, too (1838). In 1839 he passed the state examinations. He continued working in Müller’s laboratory until 1843. In 1843 Remak became a member of the Leopoldina academy. Until 1849 he then worked as a free pathological assistant for the outstanding clinician Johann Lucas Schönlein at the Charité where he...
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Sandeck, H.P. (2017). Remak, Robert (1815–1865). In: van den Tweel, J.G. (eds) Pioneers in Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41995-4_2875
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