German physician.
Born May 29th, 1851 in Polanów. [ref]
Died January 30th, 1912 at 60 years old in Berlin. [ref]
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel