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Subject: Question for the resident bookworms

Author:
Wolfie

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Date Posted: 19:42:46 06/06/03 Fri

Ok, now you have a chance to show that you're full of useless knowledge :)

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.

I know, it's not really important, just one of those things that you can't quite get out of your head until you've figured it out :)

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[> Subject: I dont think it was Winston.. he came from an upper crust family. His parents were titled. But it does sound sorta familiar.
Author: Kris [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 16:52:42 06/08/03 Sun Have you tried googling the names? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Yep, I tried to google around, but I don't have enough information to find an answer without reading 47110815 results

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Wolfie
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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.

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[> Subject: Joseph Meister
Author: Bob Knauff [ Edit \| View ]	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. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]