Prausnitz was a student of
Richard Pfeiffer, and is considered a pioneer of
bacteriology and
immunology.[6] Prausnitz was born in
Hamburg,
Germany on October 11, 1876. He was the son of Otto Prausnitz, a German physician, and an English mother whose maiden name was Giles. Prausnitz studied at the Universities of
Leipzig,
Kiel, and
Breslau, and mainly worked on differentiating Vibrio cholerae from other Vibrio species. He earned his
M.D. from the
University of Breslau in 1903. He also studied
hay fever and the allergenic nature of pollen. Prausnitz moved to
London in 1905, and became an instructor at the
Royal Institute of Public Health.
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