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PROF. MAX JAFFÉ, an eminent German biochemist and pathologist, was born at Grunberg in Silesia on July 25, 1841. He received his medical education in Berlin, where he qualified in 1862. While still a student he took a keen interest in chemical investigations and worked in the Pathological Laboratory under the direction of W. Kühne. During 1865–1872 he was an assistant in the medical clinic at Konigsberg under Leyden, with whom he published a work on putrid sputum which led to the discovery of the spirilla and leptothrix characteristic of putrid processes in the lungs. In 1872 he was appointed extraordinary professor and in 1880 full professor of pharmacology and medical chemistry in the Königsberg faculty. His principal work consisted in the discovery of urobilin and urobilinogen in the urine and their origin in the bile, his studies of indican and creatinin, with the tests with which his name is associated, and his investigations in urocaninic acid in the urine of dogs and of ornithin in the excrement of birds. Jaffé had an extensive consultant practice and enjoyed a high reputation as a teacher. He died on October 26, 1911.
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Max Jaffé (1841–1911). Nature 148, 110 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148110d0
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