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Swiss physician
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Bad Schönbrunn, Switzerland
Death
22 September 1969 (aged 62 years)
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Zürich, Switzerland
Age
62 years
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Robert Hegglin (5 May 1907 – 22 November 1969) was a Swiss doctor, responsible for the characterization of May Hegglin anomaly. Robert Hegglin is also noteworthy for his diary entries during World War II that describe the genocide on Jews committed by German Einsatzgruppen and local collaborators in the Baltics: He had taken part in a humanitarian mission of the Swiss Red Cross in Riga, Daugavpils and Pskov in June - September 1942 and learned from "German soldiers, officers and Latvians...that 100,000 Jews have been shot in the Riga area since the German occupation".
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Notable Swiss Physicians
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1900 to 1929
Notable Swiss Internists
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1900 to 1929
Notable Swiss Cardiologists
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1900 to 1929
Notable Swiss Professors
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1900 to 1929
Notable Swiss Educators
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1900 to 1929
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