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Name:  Weber, Hermann
Brief biography:  A doctor of medicine who collected a large number of coins.
Nationality:  German
Occupation:  Doctor
Date of birth:  30 December 1823
Place of birth:  Holzkirchen
Date of death:  11 November 1918
Place of death:  Europe: United Kingdom, London

Hermann Weber was born in Holzkirchen, between Munich and the modern Austrian border, in 1823. He trained as a medical doctor/physician in Marburg, and moved to work as a doctor in London. He was a keen numismatist and amassed a large coin collection, which was split up and sold off in the 1920s, after Weber's death in 1918.

Weber was knighted for his services to medicine (having worked on strokes) in 1899.

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