Baron Emil von Dungern (26 November 1867 – 4 September 1961) was a German internist.[1] He was born in Würzburg and died in Bodman-Ludwigshafen.

Emil von Dungern
Born(1867-11-26)26 November 1867
Died4 September 1961(1961-09-04) (aged 93)
NationalityGerman

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.[2] 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."[note 1][3]

References

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  1. ^ "Dungern, Emil Freiherr von; Serologe – Munzinger Online". munzinger.de. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  2. ^ Mazumdar, Pauline M. H. (18 July 2002). Species and Specificity: An Interpretation of the History of Immunology. Cambridge University Press. pp. 258–290. ISBN 978-0-521-52523-7.
  3. ^ Hirszfeld, Ludwik (1967). Historia jednego życia. Vol. 4. p. 18. OCLC 13528239.

Notes

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  1. ^ Mazumdar (2002) states that "many passages in Hirszfeld's work sound like blood grouping through the eyes of Goethe's Werther"