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Aribert Heim

1914 - 1992

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Aribert Ferdinand Heim (28 June 1914 – 10 August 1992), also known as Dr. Death and Butcher of Mauthausen, was an Austrian Schutzstaffel (SS) doctor. During World War II, he served at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Mauthausen, killing and torturing inmates using various methods, such as the direct injection of toxic compounds into the hearts of his victims. After the war, Heim lived in Cairo, Egypt, under the alias of Tarek Farid Hussein after his conversion to Islam. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aribert Heim is the 125th most popular physician (down from 96th in 2019), the 184th most popular biography from Austria (down from 161st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Austrian Physician.

Aribert Heim was a Nazi doctor who experimented on prisoners in concentration camps during World War II. He was most famous for his experiments on twins.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Aribert Heim ranks 125 out of 726. Before him are John Eccles, Hotepsekhemwy, Alexander Bogdanov, Johannes Peter Müller, Baruch Samuel Blumberg, and Santorio Santorio. After him are Hans Selye, Amenmesse, Elizabeth Blackwell, Robin Warren, William T. G. Morton, and Haldan Keffer Hartline.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Aribert Heim ranks 31. Before him are Bohumil Hrabal, Lída Baarová, Abd al-Karim Qasim, Joe DiMaggio, Joe Louis, and Max Perutz. After him are Demetrios I of Constantinople, William Vickrey, Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover, Arthur Kennedy, Boris Christoff, and Philippe Ariès. Among people deceased in 1992, Aribert Heim ranks 27. Before him are Benny Hill, Paolo Borsellino, Félix Guattari, Satyajit Ray, Peter D. Mitchell, and Anthony Perkins. After him are Nureddin al-Atassi, David Bohm, Algirdas Julien Greimas, Peyo, Günther Anders, and John G. Kemeny.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Aribert Heim ranks 184 out of 1,424. Before him are Helmut Marko (1943), Karl Polanyi (1886), Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland (1573), Alfred Schütz (1899), Michael Haydn (1737), and Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514). After him are Archduchess Maria Johanna Gabriela of Austria (1750), Angela Hitler (1883), Albert IV, Duke of Austria (1377), Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656), Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1610), and Hans Selye (1907).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Austria

Among physicians born in Austria, Aribert Heim ranks 4. Before him are Róbert Bárány (1876), Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857), and Eric Kandel (1929). After him are Hans Selye (1907), Hans Asperger (1906), Irmfried Eberl (1910), Leopold Auenbrugger (1722), Victor Babeș (1854), Paul Neumann (1875), Bénédict Morel (1809), and Fritz Klein (1932).

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