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Rudolf Virchow. Doctoral students. Otto Lubarsch. Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs (6 February 1834 – 23 October 1913) was a German-Swiss microbiologist. He is mainly known for his work on infectious diseases. His works paved the way for the beginning of modern bacteriology, and inspired Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch.
- German, Swiss
- Otto Lubarsch
germ theory. Edwin Klebs (born Feb. 6, 1834, Königsberg, Prussia [now Kaliningrad, Russia]—died Oct. 23, 1913, Bern, Switz.) 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 ...
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Feb 6, 2023 · February 2023 0 Harald Sack. Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs (6 February 1834 – 23 October 1913) On February 6, 1834, Swiss-German pathologist Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs was born. Klebs is mainly known for his work on infectious diseases. His works paved the way for the beginning of modern bacteriology, and inspired Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch.
Jul 8, 2021 · The discovery of paraffin embedding is often attributed to the pathologist Edwin Klebs. Klebs was following the lead of Stricker, who embedded embryos in a mixture of hot stearin and white beeswax. We show that Klebs experimented with paraffin wax for embedding tumour tissue.
- Tim van der Lem, Merijn de Bakker, Gerhard Keuck, Michael K. Richardson
- 10.1007/s00292-021-00947-4
- 2021
- Pathologe. 2021; 42(Suppl 1): 55-61.
Dec 3, 2016 · Ray Dyer, PhD. Edwin Klebs (1834-1913), a German-born physician and pathologist, studied at Wurzburg with Virchow in 1855, qualified at Konigsberg he following year, and then worked as assistant to Virchow in Berlin 1861-66, after which he received the appointment as Professor of Pathology, Bern, Switzerland in 1866. He served as medic in the ...
Mar 29, 2019 · In 1884, Friedrich Löffler (1852–1915), a collaborator of Robert Koch, isolated and cultured the bacterium identified by Edwin Klebs (1834–1913), an assistant of Rudolf Virchow.
Koch’s anthrax discovery that prompted his colleague Edwin Klebs (1834–1913) to set down the “Henle–Koch postulates” for establishing microbial causes of disease,3,4 leading to acceptance of infectious agents as the causes of tuberculosis (1882), cholera (1883), and many others.5 But Koch’s discovery was not serendipitous ...
