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His works paved the way for the beginning of modern bacteriology, and inspired Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch. He was the first to identify a bacterium that causes diphtheria , which was called Klebs–Loeffler bacterium (now Corynebacterium diphtheriae ).
Edwin Klebs was a German physician and bacteriologist noted for his work on the bacterial theory of infection. With Friedrich August Johannes Löffler in 1884, he discovered the diphtheria bacillus, known as the Klebs-Löffler bacillus. Klebs was assistant to Rudolf Virchow at the Pathological.
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Jun 3, 2012 · Edwin Klebs, a pathologist who had worked with Virchow in Berlin, but had moved on to Switzerland and later to the US, introduced paraffin embedding in 1869 and used his improved histologic preparations to study renal disease. He coined the term glomerulonephritis in his pathology textbook .
- Jan J. Weening, J. Charles Jennette
- 10.1007/s00428-012-1254-7
- 2012
- Virchows Arch. 2012; 461(1): 3-11.
Archiv, 1865, 34: 327-379. Klebs published other essays in volumes 16, 32, 33, and 38 of Virchow's Archiv. 10 For a discussion of research in pathology during the early nineteenth century see L. J. Rather, Rudolf Virchow's Views on Pathology, Pathological Anatomy, and Cellular Pa thology, Archives of Pathology, 1966, 82: 197-204.
Postulates."9 Many of Klebs's contemporaries deliberately followed his strategies for proving causation. In 1877 Felix Victor Birch-Hirschfeld discussed these strategies in his widely used pathology textbook.10 He observed that Klebs and others tried to explain the pathological signifi-cance of microorganisms by correlating advancing parasites ...
Listen to. this article. Text. Abstract. Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs, a native of Königsberg and contemporary of Pasteur and Koch, had an unrivaled experience in pathological anatomy and gained scientific rewards comparable to other great European bacteriologists. 1 Klebs studied medicine in Königsberg with Rathke, Helmholtz, and others, and ...
May 25, 2010 · The man who introduced paraffin embedding in 1869 was Edwin Klebs (1834–1913). To improve the embedding process, hardening and dehydration were necessary. Chromic acid (1844), chrom-osmium-acetic acid and Zenker’s fluid entered routine use for this purpose.
