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01-06-2013 | Pioneers in Neurology
Robert Remak (1815–1865)
Authors:
Andrzej Grzybowski, Krzysztof Pietrzak
Published in:
Journal of Neurology
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Issue 6/2013
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Robert Remak was a neurologist, a physiologist, and an embryologist. He was born on July 23, 1815 in Poznań; this town and a large western part of Poland was occupied by Prussia during his lifetime. In his papers, written in Polish, he refers to Poles as his compatriots [
3]. Later, when Prussian rule dictated that his further career depended on receiving baptism, he refused to reject his Jewish identity. …