1. Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs was a German-Swiss microbiologist.
18 Facts About Edwin Klebs
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Edwin Klebs is mainly known for his work on infectious diseases.
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Edwin Klebs's works paved the way for the beginning of modern bacteriology, and inspired Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch.
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Edwin Klebs studied at the University of Wurzburg under Rudolf Virchow in 1855 and received his doctorate at the University of Berlin in 1858.
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Edwin Klebs achieved his habilitation at the University of Konigsberg the following year.
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Edwin Klebs married Rosa Grossenbacher, a Swiss, and acquired Swiss citizenship.
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Edwin Klebs served as a military physician for the Prussian Army in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War; several of his ancestors had fought during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Edwin Klebs taught at Wurzburg from 1872 to 1873, at Prague from 1873 to 1882, and at Zurich from 1882 to 1892.
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From 1896 to 1900, Edwin Klebs taught at Rush Medical College in Chicago, United States.
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In 1883, Edwin Klebs successfully identified the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae as the etiological agent of diphtheria.
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Edwin Klebs' works preceded some of the most important discoveries in medicine.
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Edwin Klebs described acromegaly in 1884, two years before Pierre Marie.
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Edwin Klebs was the first to produce tuberculosis experimentally in animals by the injection of milk from infected cows.
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Edwin Klebs identified the typhoid bacillus before Karl Joseph Eberth.
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Edwin Klebs identified four "Grundversuche" that provided a basis for his research strategy, as well as general bacteriological research.
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Edwin Klebs believed, for example, that malaria was caused by a bacterium.
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Edwin Klebs reported that the antimalarial drug quinine killed the germ.
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Edwin Klebs made mistakes in claiming the existence of Microzoon septicum as causative agent of wound infection, and "monadines" as the pathogen for rheumatism.