David minkowski biography

(b. Aleksotas, near Kaunas, Russia [now Lithuanian S.S.S.R.], 13 January 1858; d. Fürstenberg, Germany, 18 June 1931)

internal medicine, clinical-experimental pathology.

Minkowski, best known for his discovery and exploration of the role of the pancreas in diabetes, was the son of a wealthy German-Jewish grain trader.

His brother Hermann (1864–1909) was a distinguished mathematician who developed the theory of quadratic forms in n-variables, worked on the mathematical physics of space and time, and taught Albert Einstein at Zurich.

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Another brother was a successful businessman and art collector. Oskar attended school in Kaunas and Königsberg, then studied medicine at Strassburg and Freiburg before qualifying as a doctor of medicine at the University of Königsberg in 1881 under Bernhard Naunyn’s supervision.

Naunyn’s influence determined the direction of Minkowski’s medical career in several ways.

First, Naunyn passed on to Minkowski an orientation to med