Albert Niemann (pediatrician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German physician
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Place of Birth: Berlin
About Albert Niemann (pediatrician)
- Albert Niemann (23 February 1880, in Berlin – 22 March 1921, in Berlin) was a German physician.
- He was the son of Albert Niemann, a well known tenor with the same name.1903 he obtained his medical doctorate from the University of Strasbourg.
- He later trained in pediatrics as an assistant at the Säuglingsheim (infant home), run by the Verein Säuglingskrankenhaus in Berlin.
- In 1918 he was named director of the Säuglingsheim at Berlin-Halensee.
- His primary area of research dealt with metabolism in infancy.Niemann–Pick disease is named for him and Ludwig Pick.
- He was the author of Kompendium der Kinderheilkunde mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Säuglingskrankheiten (Compendium of pediatrics with special reference to infant diseases; 1920).
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