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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Historical Perspective

Kallmann syndrome was described in 1944 by Franz Josef Kallmann, a German-American geneticist. However, others - such as the Spanish doctor Aureliano Maestre de San Juan - had noticed a correlation between anosmia and hypogonadism in 1856.