At 60, he daringly took a chair of economics at the newly liberated University of Leipzig, in Saxony.

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The Institute University of Leipzig, in Germany has a major genetic study called LIFE to examine disease in populations.

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"It's a wonderful contribution and another piece of the mosaic" supporting the out-of-Africa hypothesis, said Ekkehard Wolff, professor emeritus of African Languages and Linguistics at the University of Leipzig in Germany, who read the paper.

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At No. 2, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany has a doctorate from Leipzig University.

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Three doctors have been suspended at the Leipzig University Clinic's organ transplant centre.

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