Horst Klinkmann was born and grew up in Teterow,[REF] a small town near Rostock in northern Germany.
Between 1960 and 1966, he continued with higher level medical studies at Rostock's Physiology Institute, also undertaking studies at the Semmelweis University in Budapest, where his interest in kidney function was encouraged by a Professor Bálint,[REF] and at the Kidney Clinic in Lund, Sweden [REF].