When you end up in a small town in the Danube valley in Southwest Germany you hardly imagine that an internationally well-known scientist grew up here:Theodor Maximilian Bilharz was born on March 23,1825,in the town o...When you end up in a small town in the Danube valley in Southwest Germany you hardly imagine that an internationally well-known scientist grew up here:Theodor Maximilian Bilharz was born on March 23,1825,in the town of Sigmaringen.By chance,130 years later,I happened to be born in the same town.There,I went to school,which later took the name of“Bilharzschule”,there was a pharmacy called“Bilharzapotheke”,and I walked through“Bilharzstra遝”.Like most citizens of Sigmaringen,I knew his name but had no idea what he stood for.How could I imagine that this man became famous for having discovered the cause of an important worldwide tropical disease known since antiquity,which is not even endemic in Germany?Why a son of a small town in the green Danube valley should have left his homeland for Egypt?展开更多
文摘When you end up in a small town in the Danube valley in Southwest Germany you hardly imagine that an internationally well-known scientist grew up here:Theodor Maximilian Bilharz was born on March 23,1825,in the town of Sigmaringen.By chance,130 years later,I happened to be born in the same town.There,I went to school,which later took the name of“Bilharzschule”,there was a pharmacy called“Bilharzapotheke”,and I walked through“Bilharzstra遝”.Like most citizens of Sigmaringen,I knew his name but had no idea what he stood for.How could I imagine that this man became famous for having discovered the cause of an important worldwide tropical disease known since antiquity,which is not even endemic in Germany?Why a son of a small town in the green Danube valley should have left his homeland for Egypt?
