Rudolf Weigl
Deceased Person
1883 – 1957
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Who was Rudolf Weigl?
Rudolf Stefan Weigl was a Polish biologist and inventor of the first effective vaccine against epidemic typhus. He founded the Weigl Institute in Lwów, Poland, where he undertook vaccine research. It was there, during the Holocaust, that he harboured Jews and personally risked the death penalty to do so; his vaccines were also smuggled into the local ghetto as well as to the ghetto in Warsaw, saving countless additional Jewish lives.
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- Born
- Sep 2, 1883
Přerov - Nationality
- Poland
- Lived in
- Lviv
- Died
- Aug 11, 1957
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on July 23, 2013
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