Georg Gaffky

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Georg Gaffky

Georg Theodor August Gaffky (born February 17, 1850 in Hanover ; † September 23, 1918 there ) was a German bacteriologist and hygienist.

Professional background

Gaffky studied medicine at the Friedrich Wilhelms Institute in Berlin and became a member of the Pépinière Corps Suevo-Borussia in 1869 . Gaffky received his doctorate in 1873. In 1880 he was assigned as a military doctor (together with Friedrich Löffler ) to the Imperial Health Department in Berlin, where he became a student of its director Robert Koch . As a colleague of Koch, he also played a major role in his discoveries. In 1884 he succeeded in breeding the typhoid pathogen in pure culture as well as detecting salmonella .

In 1883/84 he accompanied Koch on trips through Egypt and India . In 1885 he became an employee at the Imperial Health Department in Berlin. Since 1888 professor of hygiene at the Hessian Ludwig University , he founded the Institute for Medical Microbiology in Giessen . After the cholera epidemic of 1892 he worked temporarily as an advisor to the Hamburg Senate for the establishment of a hygiene institute; he also wrote the final report. In 1896 he was head of the plague expedition of the German Empire to Bombay . In 1904 he became director of the later Robert Koch Institute in Berlin. He was given the character of a secret medical councilor. Gaffky had been a member of the Berlin Freemason Lodge Friedrich Wilhelm zur Morgenröthe since 1886 .

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  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 61/39.
  2. ↑ Manfred Vasold: Gaffky [...]. 2005, p. 445.
personal data
SURNAME Gaffky, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gaffky, Georg Theodor August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bacteriologist and hygienist
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1918
Place of death Hanover