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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 ).
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.
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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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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 ...
Edwin Klebs (klāps), 1834–1913, German-American pathologist, b. Prussia. He was an assistant of Rudolf Virchow and professor of pathology at Zürich (1872–92) and from 1896 at Rush Medical College, Chicago. He is known for his many original observations on the pathology of infectious diseases.
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 in 1855 ...
May 25, 2010 · Ch 5; Wool and Water. There is no single event, no ‘Big Bang’, that demarcates the beginning of pathology as a defined area of interest for early medical practitioners. In fact, the history of pathology has roots in common with all other medical specialties, arising in antiquity when men reasoned about the physical ailments that afflicted them.
