1889

Born in Frankenthal (Rhine-Palatinate), Germany, on 25th January

1895–
1898

Elementary school in Frankenthal and Landau

1898-
1907

Grammar school, including final examination, in Frankenthal and Ludwigshafen

1907–
1913

Medical student at the Universities of Munich and Kiel

1914-
1918

Military Service during First World War

1917

Doctoral thesis in cardiac physiology: "Changes of the central and peripheral pulse under different conditions", supervised by Otto Frank, Munich

1922

Habilitation thesis - "Studies on percussion and auscultation" - supervised by Friedrich von Müller, Munich; lecturer at University of Munich

1919–
1927

Medical registrar in Munich

1926

Graduation as Professor of Medicine; publication of his first book "Martini‘s principles and practice of physical diagnosis" ("Die unmittelbare Krankenuntersuchung", Springer, Berlin)

1927–
1928

Medical consultant in Munich

1928–
1932

Head of the Department of Medicine at St. Hedwigskrankenhaus in Berlin

1932

First edition of "Methodology of therapeutic investigation" ("Methodenlehre der therapeutischen Untersuchung", Springer, Berlin; further editions with a slightly changed title 1947, 1953, 1968 with G. Oberhoffer and E. Welte)

1932-
1957

Professor and head of the Department of Internal Medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, Bonn

1939–
1940

Army medical service as a supervising doctor during Second World War; discharged suffering from polyarthritis; continuation of his clinical work despite problems with the Nazi regime for supporting Jewish colleagues

1945

Involved in rebuilding the Medical School and University of Bonn

1957

Retired 19th March; awarded Paracelsus Medal by the Deutscher Ärztetag (the highest distinction of the German Medical Association)

1959

Honorary member of the Rudolph Virchow Society, New York, and of the German Society of Internal Medicine

1964

Died at Galenberg (Eifel), Germany, on 8th September

1966

Establishment of the Paul Martini Foundation (for the support of pharmaceutical research), Berlin, Germany