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Friedrich August Johannes Loeffler ( German: [ˈlœflɐ]; 24 June 1852 – 9 April 1915) was a German bacteriologist at the University of Greifswald . Biography. He obtained his M.D. degree from the University of Berlin in 1874. He worked with Robert Koch from 1879 to 1884 [1] as an assistant in the Imperial Health Office in Berlin.
Vita. Loeffler was a physician, hygienist, bacteriologist and the founder of the science of virology. From 1870 to 1874 he studied medicine in Würzburg and Berlin. After studying, Loeffler worked as a military physician before becoming principal assistant to Robert Koch at the Imperial Health Office in Berlin in 1879.
Apr 5, 2024 · Friedrich August Johannes Löffler (born June 24, 1852, Frankfurt an der Oder, Prussia [Germany]—died April 9, 1915, Berlin, Germany) was a German bacteriologist who, with Edwin Klebs, in 1884 discovered the organism that causes diphtheria, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, commonly known as the Klebs-Löffler bacillus.
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Summary. When starting the experiments on foot and mouth disease on the Isle of Riems in October 1910, Friedrich Loeffler could continue investigations that had been interrupted in 1907 by ministerial order. Loeffler’s appointment to Berlin in 1913 and his sudden death in 1915 lead to the temporary cessation of work on the Riems.
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May 8, 2024 · About the FLI. As Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut ( FLI) addresses farm animal health and welfare. The work aims at the prevention, diagnostics and control of animal diseases, the improvement of animal welfare and animal nutrition as well as the preservation and use of farm animal genetic resources.
The Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI), is the Federal Institute for Animal Health of Germany, that country's leading animal disease center. The institute was founded in 1910 and named for its founder Friedrich Loeffler in 1952.
The work of the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut ( FLI) focusses on farm animal health and welfare and on the protection of humans from zoonoses, i.e. infections which can be transmitted from animals to humans.
