Justus Hecker
Deceased Person
1795 – 1850
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Who was Justus Hecker?
Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker was a German physician and medical writer, whose works appear in medical encyclopaedias and journals of the time. He particularly studied disease in relation to human history, including plague, smallpox, infant mortality, dancing mania and the sweating sickness, and is often said to have founded the study of the history of disease.
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- Born
- Jan 5, 1795
Erfurt - Children
- Nationality
- Germany
- Education
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- Died
- May 11, 1850
Berlin
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on July 23, 2013
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