- Edwin Klebs
Infobox_Scientist
name = Edwin Klebs
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caption = Eberth Edwin Klebs
birth_date = birth date|1834|2|6|df=y
birth_place =Königsberg ,Kingdom of Prussia
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nationality = German, Swiss
death_date = death date|1913|10|23|df=y
death_place =Bern ,Switzerland
field =Pathologist
work_institution =University of Bern University of Würzburg University of PragueUniversity of Zurich Rush Medical College
alma_mater =University of Würzburg University of BerlinUniversity of Königsberg
doctoral_advisor =Rudolf Virchow
doctoral_students =Ernst Tiegel ,Otto Lubarsch
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footnotes =Edwin Klebs (
6 February 1834 –23 October 1913 ) was a German-Swisspathologist . He is mainly known for his work on infectious diseases. He was the father ofArnold Klebs .Life
Klebs was born in
Königsberg ,Province of Prussia . He studied at theUniversity of Würzburg underRudolf Virchow in 1855 and received his doctorate at the University of Berlin in 1858. He achieved his habilitation at theUniversity of Königsberg the following year.Klebs was an assistant to Virchow at the
Charité in Berlin from 1861 until 1866, when he became a professor of pathology at theUniversity of Bern inSwitzerland . He married Rosa Grossenbacher, a Swiss, and also acquired Swiss citizenship. He served as a military physician for thePrussian Army in 1870 during theFranco-Prussian War ; several of his ancestors had fought during theNapoleonic Wars .Klebs taught at Würzburg from 1872–73, at Prague from 1873–82, and at Zürich from 1882–92. Because of disagreements with the rest of the faculty, the impetuous Klebs resigned from Zürich in 1893 and ran an unsuccessful private business in
Karlsruhe andStrassburg in 1894.From 1896–1900 Klebs taught at
Rush Medical College inChicago ,United States . From 1905–10 he was a private researcher in Berlin, after which he returned to Switzerland, living with his oldest son inLausanne . Klebs died in Bern.Discoveries
In 1883 Klebs successfully identified the bacterium "
Corynebacterium diphtheriae " as the etiological cause ofdiphtheria . This bacterium is also known as the Klebs-Löffler bacillus.The bacterial genus "
Klebsiella " is named in honor of his work.References
* [http://www.bartleby.com/65/kl/Klebs-Ed.html Klebs, Edwin - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05]
External links
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* [http://www.pathologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/geschichte/historische_direktoren/edwin_klebs/ Bio at the University of Würzburg] de icon
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