Baron Emil von Dungern (26 November 1867 – 4 September 1961) was a German internist.
Von Dungern was born in
Würzburg
Würzburg (; Main-Franconian: ) is a city in the region of Franconia in the north of the German state of Bavaria. Würzburg is the administrative seat of the ''Regierungsbezirk'' Lower Franconia. It spans the banks of the Main River.
Würzburg is ...
and died in
Ludwigshafen am Bodensee. In 1910–11, E. von Dungern and
Ludwik Hirszfeld
Ludwik Hirszfeld (5 August 1884 – 7 March 1954) was a Polish microbiologist and serologist. He is considered a co-discoverer of the inheritance of ABO blood types.
Life
He was a cousin of Aleksander Rajchman, a Polish mathematician, and of ...
discovered the heritability of
ABO blood groups
The ABO blood group system is used to denote the presence of one, both, or neither of the A and B antigens on erythrocytes. For human blood transfusions, it is the most important of the 43 different blood type (or group) classification system ...
.
1867 births
1961 deaths
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