Here's the background:
As we all learned in school (well, some people here may have read it in the newspaper when it happened), Louis Pasteur discovered vaccines for anthrax and rabies, and in 1885 he saved a young boys life after the boy had been bitten by a rabied dog.
The boys name was Joseph Meister.
Now my question:
I somewhat remember that this boy in later years adopted or sponsored another young boy, giving him a chance to go to a good school and get a good education. But I can't quite remember who this other boy was. I think it was Winston Churchill, but I'm really not sure.
Somehow the life of a later famous person is connected with the boy who had been saved by Pasteur's vaccine, and maybe someone here has heard this story too.
Date Posted:17:57:25 06/08/03 Sun
Churchill would fit in the timeframe, but you're right, he already was upper deck.
Here's another "Did You Know?" though:
The same Joseph Meister who had been saved by Pasteur's vaccine later became custodian and/or guard at the Pasteur institute in Paris. And when the Nazis came to Paris in 1940, he killed himself rather than opening Pasteur's crypt for them.
Date Posted:13:23:04 01/28/05 Fri
Joseph Meister committed suicide after refusing to open for the Germans in 1940 the vault of Louis Pasteur at the Pasteur Institute. Meister was employed by the institute as a security guard/gatekeeper. I have been trying to find out why the Germans wanted to get into the grave.
