Who is Heckler?

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Found him. He was Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker (1795 – 1850), doctor and professor at the Frederick William University in Berlin. His essay on the plague was "Der schwarze Tod im vierzehnten Jahrhundert: Nach den Quellen für Ärzte und gebildete Nichtärzte bearbeitet." According to the Wikipedia he is the founder of the study of the history of disease.

Note that the English sources generally misquote his name as HECKLER with an "L" (and then copy each other's mistake), so it was hard to find him since his name is HECKER not HECKLER.

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