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hermann munk -lrb- 1839 -- 1912 -rrb- was a jewish german physiologist .
he was born at posen , studied at berlin and göttingen , and in 1862 became docent in the former university .
seven years afterward he was promoted to assistant professor , and in 1876 to professor of physiology at the veterinary college at berlin .
besides studies on the productive methods of threadworms , munk wrote on the physiology of the nerves and especially on the brain .
