About Emil von Dungern
Lived 1867 – 1961 (aged 93). Emil von Dungern was a German internist, physician, bacteriologist, physiologist and microbiologist.
Baron Emil von Dungern (26 November 1867 – 4 September 1961) was a German internist. He was born in Würzburg and died in Bodman-Ludwigshafen.
Von Dungern worked at the Heidelberg Institute for Experimental Cancer Research where he was the director of the scientific section. Ludwik Hirszfeld, the co-discoverer of the heritability of ABO blood groups, was his research assistant from 1907 to 1911. Hirszfeld, in his work Historia (1967), described von Dungern as "a spiritual poet who had to fall in love with a problem in order to be able to work on it ... He was a flame burning from within."
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Who was Emil von Dungern?
German internist (1867–1961)
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Emil von Dungern was born on 26 November 1867 in Würzburg.
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Emil von Dungern died on 4 September 1961 in Bodman-Ludwigshafen.
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Emil von Dungern was an internist, physician, bacteriologist, physiologist and microbiologist.
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Emil von Dungern was German.
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