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Karl Gebhardt
Karl Franz Gebhardt was a German physician and a war criminal. Gebhardt was the main coordinator of a series of medical atrocities performed on inmates of the concentration camps at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz. These experiments were an attempt to defend his approach to the surgical management of grossly contaminated traumatic wounds, against the then-new innovations of antibiotic treatment of injur…
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science · German physician, war criminal, SS-Gruppenführer (1897–1948) · surgeon · university teacher · concentration camp guard · politician · physician · also Karl Gebhardt, Karl Franz Gebhardt, Professor Gebhardt, Gebhardt
Born 23 November 1897 · Died 2 June 1948 · Q58626
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2020· 1 entry
MutualArt.com: Karl Gebhardt
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2018· 1 entry
“How Bürgi computed the sines of all integer angles simultaneously in 1586”
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1956· 1 entry
After a Ravensbrück survivor recognized her, and her medical license was revoked in 1958
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1948· 1 entry
Died 1948-06-02.
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1938· 1 entry
Gebhardt was appointed as SS leader Heinrich Himmler's personal physician
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1937· 1 entry
Became chair holder for orthopedic surgery at the University of Berlin
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1936· 1 entry
Distinguished himself in his post as a head of the Medical Department of the Akademie für Sport und Leibeserziehung (Academy for Exercise and Physical Training) as senior physician of the 1936 Summer Olympics
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1935· 2 entries
Where he became the first professor of sports medicine in Berlin
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Moved to Berlin, where he was appointed associate professor
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1924· 1 entry
After two years as an unpaid assistant physician he received a post as an intern at the Surgical Clinic of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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1923· 1 entry
Gebhardt, a member of the Freikorps Oberland, participated in the Beer Hall Putsch
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1913· 1 entry
“History of the Exponential and Logarithmic Concepts”
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1897· 1 entry
Born 1897-11-23.
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1620· 1 entry
“Elem. Math. (2016) 71 pp. 89–99. == See also == Astronomy Canon Sinuum (Bürgi) History of logarithms History of mathematics History of science Kunstweg Mathematics Trigonometry == External links == Jost Bürgi @MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive Bürgi, Jost bio from Oliver Knill @Harvard University Bürgi’s “Progress Tabulen”
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