Robert Koch
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Science, Medicine, Health
- Subcategories: Biology, Biologists, Scientists, Doctors, Physicians, Nurses, Epidemics, Diseases
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, 19th Century European History, German History
Article abstract: Koch was a pioneer bacteriologist and the first to prove definitively that specific microorganisms cause specific diseases. He identified the bacterium that caused cholera, enabling the virtual elimination of that disease in the Western world. He isolated the causative agent of tuberculosis, eventually leading to the containment of that once-deadly scourge, and he discovered the reproductive cycle of anthrax, providing for the successful combating of that disease.
Early Life
Robert Koch was born in the mining country of the Harz...
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