This is a rare photo for this blog - it did not need to be cropped. What I saw was what you see. It is a photo of an area in Schönleinsplatz Square in Bamberg. I have no idea about the identity of the guy in the middle of the frame, but it was nice of him to pose.
All
right, you may have guessed that this is a bust of Johann Lukas
Schönlein, since the square is named after him. Americans probably
haven't heard much about Schonein, but they should learn a bit about
him.
One
of his accomplishments in his medical research was that he discovered
that parasites led to ringworm. He also gave tuberculosis its name; you
might know that people called it "consumption" before that. Schonlein
also came up with the name of haemophilia. He was one of the first
medical lecturers in his native country to give lessons in German
instead of Latin, no doubt earning the thanks of bunches of medical
students.
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