Robert Hegglin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swiss physician (1907-1969)
Date of Birth: 05-May-1907
Place of Birth: Bad Schönbrunn, Central Switzerland, Switzerland
Date of Death: 22-Sep-1969
Profession: university teacher, cardiologist, internist
Nationality: Switzerland
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Robert Hegglin
- Robert Hegglin (5 May 1907 – 22 November 1969) was a Swiss doctor, responsible for the characterization of May Hegglin anomaly.
- Robert Hegglin is also noteworthy for his diary entries during World War II that describe the genocide on Jews committed by German Einsatzgruppen and local collaborators in the Baltics: He had taken part in a humanitarian mission of the Swiss Red Cross in Riga, Daugavpils and Pskov in June - September 1942 and learned from "German soldiers, officers and Latvians...that 100,000 Jews have been shot in the Riga area since the German occupation".
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