Robert Koch

Bio

* 1843, Clausthal, Germany

† 1910, Baden-Baden, Germany

Career

1862 studies of botany, physics and mathematics at the University of Göttingen; later studies of medicine (under J. Henle); doctoral dissertation entitled Ueber das Entstehen der Bernsteinsäure im menschlichen Organismus, which appeared in 1865 in Henle's Zeitschrift für rationelle Medizin; 1866 final examinations at the University of Göttingen and state examination at Hannover; 1866 for three months assistant at Hamburg General Hospital; assistant at an institution for retarded children in Langenhagen; 1868 private practice in Niemegk, later in Rakwitz; service as field hospital physician at Neufchâteau and at Orléans during the Franco-Prussian War; 1871 left the army and resumed practice in Rakwitz; examinations for district medical officer passed; 1872 practitioner in Wollstein (now Wolsztyn, Poland); several visits to Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland) and acquaintance with Ferdinand Cohn, Julius Cohnheim and Gustav Fritsch; 1879 for three months city physician at Breslau; return to Wollstein; 1880 government adviser (Regierungsrat) with the Imperial Department of Health (Kaiserliches Reichsgesundheitsamt) in Berlin; work with Friedrich Loeffler, Georg Gaffky and later also with Ferdinand Hueppe and Bernhard Fischer in Koch's laboratory; 1883 Geheimer Regierungsrat; 1885 chair of hygiene at the University of Berlin; Geheimer Medizinalrat and official delegate at the International Sanitary Conference at Rome; 1891-1904 director of the bacteriological research institute; 1906 Wirklicher Geheimer Rat with the predicate Excellenz; several research journeys in order to continue his bacteriological studies (1883-1884 to Egypt and India; 1887 to India and German East Africa; 1899 to Italy and Java; 1903 to Rhodesia; 1905 to equatorial Africa); Nobel Prize (1905).

VL Library

Die Aetiologie der Milzbrandkrankheit, begründet auf Entwicklungsgeschichte des Bacillus Anthracis, in: Beitr. Biol. Pflanzen 2(1876): 277-310; Verfahren zur Untersuchung, zum Conservieren und Photographieren der Bacterien, in: ebda 2(1877): 399-434; Untersuchungen über die Aetiologie der Wundinfektionskrankheiten, Leipzig 1878; Zur Untersuchung von pathogenen Organismen, in: Mitt. a. d. kaiserl. Gesundheitsamte 1(1881): 1-48; Die Aetiologie der Tuberkulose, in: Berl. klin. Wo.schr. 19(1882): 221-230; Untersuchungen über die Aetiologie der Tuberkulose, in: Mitt. a. d. kaiserl. Gesundheitsamte 2(1884): 1-88; Conferenz zur Erörterung der Cholerafrage, in: Berl. klin. Wo.schr. 2l(1884): 478-483; (hrsg. v. Julius Schwalbe) Gesammelte Werke von Robert Koch, 2 Bde., Leipzig 1912.

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