Eduard Arning was an English-German dermatologist and microbiologist

Microbiologist

A microbiologist is a scientist who works in the field of microbiology. Microbiologists study organisms called microbes. Microbes can take the form of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protists...

 from Manchester

Manchester

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. Arning was educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums

Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums

The Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums is a Gymnasium in Hamburg, Germany. It is Hamburg's oldest school and was founded in 1529 by Johannes Bugenhagen. The school's motto is The Future needs a Heritage...

. In 1879 he obtained his medical doctorate from Strassburg, and afterwards was a medical assistant in Strassburg under Adolf Kussmaul (1822-1902), and in Berlin

Berlin

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 under Oskar Lassar

Oskar Lassar

Oskar Lassar was a German dermatologist who was a native of Hamburg. After earning his medical doctorate in 1872, he was briefly a hospital assistant at the Berlin Charité. Afterwards he started a private hospital for dermatology and syphilis in Berlin...

 (1849-1907). From 1884-86 he researched leprosy

Leprosy

Leprosy or Hansen's disease is a chronic disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis. Named after physician Gerhard Armauer Hansen, leprosy is primarily a granulomatous disease of the peripheral nerves and mucosa of the upper respiratory tract; skin lesions...

 in the Hawaiian Islands

Hawaiian Islands

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. In 1887 he became a specialist of dermatology and venereal disease in Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

. In 1919 he became a professor of dermatology at the University of Hamburg

University of Hamburg

The University of Hamburg is a university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by Wilhelm Stern and others. It grew out of the previous Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen and the Kolonialinstitut as well as the Akademisches Gymnasium. There are around 38,000 students as of the start of...

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Arning is known today for his medical studies done at the leper colony on Molokai

Molokai

Molokai or Molokai is an island in the Hawaiian archipelago. It is 38 by 10 miles in size with a land area of , making it the fifth largest of the main Hawaiian Islands and the 27th largest island in the United States. It lies east of Oahu across the 25-mile wide Kaiwi Channel and north of...

. In 1884 he arrived in Hawaii under the sponsorship of King Kalakaua. He is remembered for his experiments involving contagiousness of leprosy. He did experiments on Hawaiian natives, infecting them with lepra and then studying the course of disease. Today at the Hawaiian Historical Society Library in Honolulu are reproductions of 237 rare glass-plate photographs that Arning created during his stay in Hawaii. The original photos are in the Hamburgisches Museum für Völkerkunde in Hamburg.