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Marc Armand Ruffer
Born (1859-08-29 ) August 29, 1859Disappeared April 15, 1917(1917-04-15) (aged 57 )Aegean Sea Occupation(s ) Pathologist, bacteriologist Known for Pioneer of modern paleopathology Spouse Lady Ruffer Children 3
Sir Marc Armand Ruffer CMG (29 August 1859[1] experimental pathologist and bacteriologist . He is considered a pioneer of modern paleopathology .[2]
Ruffer was born in Lyon , as the fifth of nine children of the Swiss banker Alphonse Charles Jacques Ruffer (1819–1896, first Baron de Ruffer) and his wife, Anne Caroline Prieger (1826-1890) from Bad Kreuznach in the Kingdom of Prussia .[3] Maurice Ruffer (1857-1935) was Marc Armand Ruffers older brother.
Ruffer married Alice Mary Greenfield in 1890 and had three children, including Nina Ruffer, who studied anthropology at Somerville College, Oxford and was mentioned by Vera Brittain in the Testament of Youth
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He was educated in Germany and France before attending Brasenose College, Oxford (1878–1881) and reading medicine University College London . He also studied at the Pasteur Institute in Paris under Louis Pasteur .[1]
Ruffer was naturalized as a British citizen in 1890. In 1891, he was appointed the first director of the British Institute of Preventive Medicine, latterly the Lister Institute .
Moving to Egypt for health reasons, Ruffer was appointed a professor of bacteriology at The Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University in 1896, later taking roles on committees dealing with health, disease, and sanitation. In Egypt he worked on the histology of mummies publishing his findings and helping to establish the field of paleopathology .
Ruffer was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1905[4] knighted in 1916. He also received the Grand Cross of the Ottoman Orders of Osmanieh and the Medjidie , the Order of the Redeemer (2nd class) of Greece, and was Commander (2nd class) in the Order of St Anne of Russia and the Crown of Italy .[4]
He went to Greece during the First World War in capacity as Commissioner of the British Red Cross Society to improve sanitation. Returning to Egypt on board the ship SS Arcadian [5] Milos without warning by the German submarine UC-74
He was seen twice in the sea, first alive and upright and then floating, believed dead. His body was never recovered from the sea. He was declared legally dead in 1918.[6] [7]
After research by the In from the Cold Project , he was accepted on 17 September 2016 for commemoration by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on their Mikra Memorial in Kalamaria , Thessaloniki , Greece, to those who have no known grave.[3] [8]
Lady Ruffer died in Alexandria in 1950.[9]
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References [ edit ]
^ Sandison, Andrew T. 'Sir Marc Armand Ruffer (1859–1917):Pioneer of Paleopathology.' The Global History of Paleopathology: Pioneers and Prospects , ed. Jane Buikstra, and Charlotte Roberts (New York, 2012) 106
^ a b CWGC Casualty record, Sir Marc Armand Ruffer.
^ a b Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes, 1916 . Kelly's. p. 1283.
^ "S.S.Arcadian at the Roll of Honour website" . Retrieved 28 July 2012 .
^ "Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division – Motion to Presume the Death of Sir M. Ruffer". The Times
^ "Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division – Presumption of Sir M. A. Ruffer's Death". The Times
^ "IFCP - Casualties in from the Cold" . Archived from the original on 19 May 2015. Retrieved 11 May 2015 .
^ "Obituaries: Lady Ruffer". The Times
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