Edwin Klebs

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Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs

Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs (born February 6, 1834 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † October 23, 1913 in Bern ) was a German-Swiss pathologist and microbiologist. The bacterial genus Klebsiella is named after him .

life and work

Edwin Klebs was born in 1834 as the son of the district and city judge Friedrich Heinrich Klebs and his wife Sophie. Reich was born and attended high school in Koenigsberg.

Klebs studied medicine from 1852 at the Albertus University of Königsberg and from 1855 at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and then at the University of Jena and the Friedrich Wilhelms University of Berlin . In 1854, like his brother Oskar, he became a member of the Germania Königsberg fraternity . In 1856 he was awarded a doctorate by his Würzburg teacher Rudolf Virchow , who was meanwhile in Berlin. med. PhD .

Approved in 1858, he initially worked as a general practitioner in Königsberg for a year and then, after completing his habilitation in pathological anatomy in 1859, became a private lecturer at the University of Königsberg, where he worked as an assistant at the Physiological Institute. From 1861 to 1865 he was assistant to Rudolf Virchow at the Pathological Institute in Berlin. In 1866 he became associate professor for pathological anatomy in Bern, in 1867 full professor . He married the Swiss Marie Rosetta Grossenbacher and acquired Swiss citizenship. His son was the medical historian Arnold C. Klebs .

During the Franco-Prussian War he volunteered as a military doctor for the Prussian Army .

In 1871 Klebs founded the correspondence sheet for Swiss doctors . In 1872/73 he was full professor at the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg for a few months , and from 1873 at the Charles University in Prague . When the university split up, he returned to Switzerland in 1882 and became a full professor in Zurich . With Friedrich Loeffler , he discovered the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae , the causative agent of diphtheria , in 1884 . During his time in Zurich, from 1892 onwards, he also worked as an author of scientific papers in Karlsruhe. In 1893 he was forced to resign, among other things because of his advocacy for a better water supply during the typhus epidemic in Zurich.

He then followed a call to the USA in 1895 as head of a bacteriotherapeutic institute in Asheville (North Carolina) and was appointed to the Rush Medical College in Chicago in 1896 , where he was professor of pathology. In 1900 he returned to Germany and from 1905 was a private scholar in Berlin. He retired in 1910 and returned to Switzerland, where he lived with his eldest son. He was a member of the Königsberg Freemason Lodge Zum Todtenkopf und Phönix .

Works

  • Manual of pathological anatomy , 2 volumes, Berlin 1868–1876
  • The Bacillus of Abdominal Typhoid and the Typhoid Process. Archives for Experimental Pathology and Pharmacology 13, 1881, pp. 381-460

literature

  • Arnold C. Klebs : "The scientific work of Edwin Klebs", in: Negotiations of the German Pathological Society. 17, 1914, pp. 590–597, (catalog raisonné)
  • Julius Pagel : Klebs, Edwin , in: Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Doctors of the Nineteenth Century . Berlin and Vienna 1901, Col. 863 f.
  • Manfred Stürzbecher:  Klebs, Edwin. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 719 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Axel Bauer : Historia magistra - Historia ministra pathologiae? On the role of historiography in pathology: developments and tendencies. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 11, 1993, pp. 59-76; here: p. 64 f.
  • Thomas Sauer, Ralf Vollmuth : Letters from members of the Würzburg medical faculty in the estate of Anton Ruland. Sources on the history of medicine in the 19th century with short biographies. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 9, 1991, pp. 135-206; here: p. 153 f.
  • Werner Köhler : Klebs, Theodor Albrecht Edwin. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 755 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: De mutationibus, quae in intestino inveniuntur, tuberculosis .
  2. ^ Werner Koehler: Klebs, Theodor Albrecht Edwin. In: Encyclopedia of Medical History. 2005, p. 755.
  3. ^ Werner Koehler: Klebs, Theodor Albrecht Edwin. 2005, p. 755.
personal data
SURNAME Klebs, Edwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klebs, Theodor Albrecht Edwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and bacteriologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1913
Place of death Bern