Paul Bargehr (18 March 1889 – 31 December 1951) was an Austrian medical doctor and writer mostly known for his work treating Hansen's disease (leprosy) in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).
Although the Japanese researcher Kensuke Mitsuda receives credit for first developing the modern lepromin test for distinguishing between different forms of Hansen's disease, Bargehr's work was responsible for coining and popularizing its current name.
[1] While there, he studied and treated Hansen's disease,[1] developing a modified form of intradermal leprolin test.
[4] He changed the name to avoid confusion with the tuberculin test for tuberculosis and also to clarify that the antigen was made from lepromatuous tissue.
[1] He completed a manuscript entitled New Foundations of Physics (German: Neue Grundlagen der Physik) in 1945, but was unable to find a publisher.