A TRIBUTE TO SCHNEIDER,GERMAN, MD, FOUNDE R AND FIRST EDITOR OF REVISTA-MEDICA-DE-CHILE

German Schneider was born in 1820 in Magdeburg, Germany, and graduated as M.D. at the University of Bonn. In 1848, caught by the political a nd intellectual reformist movement in Europe, he was exiled in Paris. As part of a large group of German immigrants, he arrived in Valdivia, Chile, in 1851. Later on he moved to Santiago and in 1871 he was nomi nated Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Chile School of Medicine. An active participant in the academic activities organiz ed by Sociedad Medica de Santiago (a scientific society that evolved i nto the Chilean Society of Internal Medicine) he was the leader of a s ix-men team who founded Revista Medica de Chile, in 1872. As first Edi tor of this medical journal, he established the basis for its continuo us success and devotion to medical progress and education. Dr. Schneid er died in 1884, leaving several distinguished pupils who followed his path, and a medical journal that now stands as one of the oldest in t he world.