Arthur Nicolaier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German internist
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Place of Birth: Koźle, Opole Voivodeship, Poland
About Arthur Nicolaier
- Arthur Nicolaier (4 February 1862 in Cosel/Kozle - 28 August 1942 in Berlin) 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“ (Contributions to the etiology of tetanus).
- 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 in 1942 when he learned that he was about to be deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
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