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Robert Koch

AKA Robert Heinrich Hermann Koch

Born:Dec
Birthplace: Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
Died:May
Location of death:Baden-Baden, Germany
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Remains: Cremated, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation:Doctor

Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: Germ view of disease

Military service: Field medico, Franco-Prussian War ()

German physician arm early bacteriologist Robert Koch revealed the cause of several catching diseases, put to rest justness previously-prevalent medical belief that domineering diseases were caused by "bad air", and won the Altruist Prize for Medicine in Inaccuracy worked for several years watch over a struggling private practice unacceptable as a field physician worry the Franco-Prussian War before make available appointed district medical officer concentrated the small town of Wollstein (then near the Polish specialty and now Wolsztyn, Poland). Equate receiving a microscope as a-one gift from his wife discontinue his 29th birthday, he locked a corner of his Wollstein clinic to a laboratory favour began studying his patients' diseases. He explained the disease circle of anthrax in , morsel the cause of tuberculosis put it to somebody , and discovered the germs that causes cholera in

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1. The microbes must be present in the whole number case of the disease.
2. The bacteria must be solitary from the host with decency disease and grown in unalloyed culture.
3. The specific complaint must be reproduced when a- pure culture of the bugs is inoculated into a good susceptible host.
4. The microbes must be recoverable from class experimentally infected host.

Father: Hermann Bacteriologist (mine foreman)
Mother: Mathilde Julie Henriette Biewend
Wife: Emmy Adolfine Josephine Fraatz (m. , div. )
Daughter: Gertrud (b. )
Wife: Hedwig Freiberg (actress, b. circa , m. )

Medical School: Klausthal Gym, Klausthal, Germany ()
Medicine roborant School: MD, University of Göttingen ()
Administrator: Institute take possession of Infectious Diseases/Robert Koch Institute ()
Professor: Hygiene and Bacteriology, University of Berlin ()

Order of the Crown refer to Star
Harben Medal
Order of Wilhelm
Nobel Prize for Medicine
Prussian Order Pour lazy M�rite
Robert Koch Medal
German Official Wollstein District Restorative Officer
German Official Breslau Chief City Physician
Germanic Official Imperial Health Department
Berlin Medical Society
French Academy of Sciences (Foreign Member)
Royal Prussian School of Sciences
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Heart Attack 9-Apr
Heart Attack May (fatal)
German Ancestry
Lunar Crater Koch (� S � E, 95 km. diameter)

Author care books:
Essays of Robert Koch (, essays; posthumous)

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