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| Names: | Born: Edward Christian Arning
Other: Dr. Eduard Arning
Other: Dr. Edward Arning
Other: Eduard Arning
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| | Dates: | 1855, 9 June - 1936 | | Born: | UK, Manchester | | Active: | US, Hawaii | | Gender: | Male |
Obtained a medical degree from Strassburg (1879) and specialized in dermatology with Oskar Lassa (1849-1907). Between 1884-1886 he carried out research on leprosy and microbiology at Father Damien's Molokai isolate for lepers, Hawaii. He was Physician-in-chief, Allgemeines Krankenhaus St. Georg, Hamburg (1906-1923) and Professor of dermatology, University of Hamburg (1919). He was also keen amateur photographer with his photographs included in pictorialist publications including Die Kunst in der Photographie.
A collection of 237 of his glass plates was discovered by Dr. Adrienne L. Kaeppler in the Hamburgisches Museum fur Volkerkunde in 1994 and these were used to create a set of the prints that is housed in the Edward Arning Collection at the Hawaiian Historical Society (www.huapala.net).Preparing biographies
General reading
Bushnell, O. A., 1967, ‘Dr. Edward Arning, the First Microbiologist in Hawaii ?‘, [Δ]
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