Emil von Behring
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Emil von Behring, was a German physiologist. In 1901, he received the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his work on serum therapy, especially its application against diphtheria, by whic
Behring in 1913
Laboratory of 1913 in the Wannkopfstraße in Marburg
Villa Behring (burgundy) on Capri
Behring mausoleum in Marburg
Maxim Gorky
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Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, popularly known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, and proponent of socialism. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Befor
Emil von Behring
…studied medicine. The couple held their honeymoon at villa "Behring" on Capri 1897, where Behring owned a vacation home. In 1909–1911, the Russian writer Maxim Gorky lived at this villa. Die Blutserumtherapie (1892…
Gorky in 1906
"Ex Libris Maxim Gorki" bookplate from his personal library depicts the unchained Prometheus rising from the pages of a book, breaking a multi-tailed whip and shooing away black crows. Saint Basil's Cathedral is portrayed in the background
Anton Chekhov and Gorky. 1900, Yalta
Leo Tolstoy with Gorky in Yasnaya Polyana, 1900