Adolf Streckeisen
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Adolf Streckeisen was professor of medicine
Medicine
Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....

 at Basel University, first forensic physician (Gerichtsarzt) of Basel
Basel
Basel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...

 (a post created in 1895) and president of the Basel Mission
Basel Mission
The Basel Mission is a Christian missionary society active from 1815 to 2001, when it was merged into Mission 21, the successor organization of Kooperation Evangelischer Kirchen und Missione founded in 2001....

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He was the father of geologist Albert Streckeisen
Albert Streckeisen
Albert Streckeisen was a Swiss petrographer and petrologist, the son of Basel forensic scientist Adolf Streckeisen.- Biography :...

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