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1889
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Born in Frankenthal (Rhine-Palatinate), Germany, on 25th January
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1895– 1898
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Elementary school in Frankenthal and Landau
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1898- 1907
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Grammar school, including final examination, in Frankenthal and Ludwigshafen
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1907– 1913
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Medical student at the Universities of Munich and Kiel
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1914- 1918
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Military Service during First World War
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1917
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Doctoral thesis in cardiac physiology: "Changes of the central and peripheral pulse under different conditions", supervised by Otto Frank, Munich
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1922
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Habilitation thesis - "Studies on percussion and auscultation" - supervised by Friedrich von Müller, Munich; lecturer at University of Munich
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1919– 1927
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Medical registrar in Munich
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1926
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Graduation as Professor of Medicine; publication of his first book "Martini‘s principles and practice of physical diagnosis" ("Die unmittelbare Krankenuntersuchung", Springer, Berlin)
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1927– 1928
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Medical consultant in Munich
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1928– 1932
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Head of the Department of Medicine at St. Hedwigskrankenhaus in Berlin
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1932
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First edition of "Methodology of therapeutic investigation" ("Methodenlehre der therapeutischen Untersuchung", Springer, Berlin; further editions with a slightly changed title 1947, 1953, 1968 with G. Oberhoffer and E. Welte)
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1932- 1957
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Professor and head of the Department of Internal Medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, Bonn
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1939– 1940
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Army medical service as a supervising doctor during Second World War; discharged suffering from polyarthritis; continuation of his clinical work despite problems with the Nazi regime for supporting Jewish colleagues
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1945
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Involved in rebuilding the Medical School and University of Bonn
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1957
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Retired 19th March; awarded Paracelsus Medal by the Deutscher Ärztetag (the highest distinction of the German Medical Association)
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1959
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Honorary member of the Rudolph Virchow Society, New York, and of the German Society of Internal Medicine
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1964
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Died at Galenberg (Eifel), Germany, on 8th September
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1966
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Establishment of the Paul Martini Foundation (for the support of pharmaceutical research), Berlin, Germany
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