biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1815–65)
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| biography:
| Physician and pioneer in electrotherapy for the treatment of nervous diseases, born in Poznan, WC Poland (formerly Posen, Prussia). He studied at the University of Berlin, went into medical practice, and assisted at the university in an unpaid capacity because, as a Jew, he was not allowed to teach. He discovered the fibres of Remak (1838), and the nerve cells in the heart now called Remak's ganglia (1844). He finally became the first Jew to teach at the university (1847), but his promotion to assistant professor in 1859 did not reflect his eminence. |
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