Arnold Klebs

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name = Arnold C. Klebs
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birth_date = March 17, 1870
birth_place = Berne, Switzerland
death_date = March 6, 1943
death_place = Nyon, Switzerland
residence = United States
Switzerland
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field = Microbiology
work_institutions = Johns Hopkins University
National Tuberculosis Institute
alma_mater = University of Basel
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known_for = Work with "Mycobacterium tuberculosis"
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influences = William Osler
Edwin Klebs
William H. Welch
influenced = Harvey Cushing
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Arnold C. Klebs (March 17, 1870 - March 6, 1943) was a physician who specialized in the study of tuberculosis. Born in Berne, Switzerland, Arnold Klebs, the son of renowned bacteriologist Edwin Klebs, was raised in the presence of an extensive array of scientists, artists and historians.cite journal |last=Baumgartner, M.D. |first=Leona |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1944 |month=January |title=Arnold Klebs as Humanistic Scholar |journal=Bulletin of the Medical Library Association |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=85–95 |id= |url=http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=194300&blobtype=pdf |accessdate= |quote= ]

Klebs took a medical degree from the University of Basel in 1896, then moved to the United States to practice medicine. Klebs worked with William Osler at Johns Hopkins University for a year after arriving in the U.S., and was a contemporary of William H. Welch. Following his work with Osler, he worked as a sanatorium director and tuberculosis specialist in Citronelle, Alabama and Chicago. Given his long experience with the ailment, Klebs was named one of the first directors of the National Tuberculosis Institute.cite book |last=van Alphen |first=H. August |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor=Yücel Kanpolat |title=Research and Publishing in Neurosurgery |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=l2AIvSB2ukEC&pg=PA30&sig=MFqintceG0uRPoRzGV4HlOV5PIw#PPA130,M1 |year=2002 |publisher=Springer |location= |isbn=321183821X |pages=130-131]

In 1910, he returned to his native Switzerland, and settled in a villa on Lake Geneva. In 1939, Klebs donated his collection of books to Harvey Cushing for its inclusion in what would become the Yale University's Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library. [cite book |last=Anonymous |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=The making of a library: Extracts from letters 1934-1941 Harvey Cushing, Arnold C Klebs, John Fulton. |year=1959 |publisher=Yale University |location=New Haven, Connecticut |isbn= ] These included incunabula, plague tracts, herbals, books and pamphlets on tuberculosis, and books on inoculation and vaccination. [cite web |title=Founders and Early Benefactors: Arnold Klebs |date= |work=Harvey Cushing/John Jay Whitney Medical Library |url=http://www.med.yale.edu/library/historical/founders/klebs.html |accessdate=2007-11-17 ] Klebs' library included 3000 texts related to tuberculosis alone.

ee also

* Edwin Klebs
* Tuberculosis

References

External links

* [http://www.med.yale.edu/library/historical/ Harvey Cushing/John Jay Whitney Medical Library; Yale University]
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