Ferdinand Julius Cohn
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Science
- Subcategories: Biology, Biologists, Scientists, Plants, Botany, Horticulture
- Curriculum: 19th Century European History, German History
Article abstract: Cohn is considered one of the founders of modern bacteriology. As a botanist, he contributed to understanding the evolutionary position of many microscopic plantlike organisms by elucidating their life histories.
Early Life
The eldest of three sons of a poor Jewish merchant, Issak Cohn, Ferdinand Julius Cohn was born in the Breslau ghetto. He was a precocious child who, it is said, was able to read at the age of two and enter school at the age of four. At the age of seven he began higher school at the Gymnasium of St. Maria...
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