Eduard Arning

Eduard Christian Arning (9 June 1855 – 20 August 1936) was an English-German dermatologist and microbiologist from Manchester.

Arning received his early education from private tutors and at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums in Hamburg.

[1] In Hawaii, he purposely infected a convicted murderer named Keanu with leprosy, by suturing a leproma the size of a hen's egg into an incision in the man's arm.

[2] Today at the Hawaiian Historical Society Library in Honolulu are reproductions of 237 rare glass-plate photographs that Arning created during his stay in Hawaii.

His name is associated with an anti-fungal solution known as Arningsche tinktur (Arning's tincture).