Robert Koch Museum

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Natural science and medical institutes of the Royal University of Berlin in Dorotheenstrasse

The Robert Koch Museum was a museum in Berlin district of Mitte . It was set up in 1960 on the 50th anniversary of the death of the scientist Robert Koch by Paul Oesterle, the head of the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Epidemiology at the Humboldt University , his senior physician H. Horn and the historian Karl-Heinz Thieleke. Koch founded the University's Hygiene Institute at the end of the 19th century and became its first director.

The museum was located on the first floor of the Robert Koch Forum, a listed building of the Royal University of Berlin, on the corner of Dorotheenstrasse and Wilhelmstrasse in a brick building from the 1880s, the model of which was the Schinkelsche Bauakademie .

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The building was largely spared during the war and gave visitors the opportunity to find part of the original furnishings.

The museum room was located right next to the library in which Robert Koch presented his discovery on the "etiology of tuberculosis" to the Berlin Physiological Society on March 24, 1882, and mainly showed personal exhibits from Robert Koch's estate. His second wife Hedwig Freiberg originally bequeathed the estate to the Märkisches Museum. These include birth certificates, private pictures from his youth, certificates, his doctorate, the honorary citizenship of the city of Berlin, honorary gifts, hunting trophies, a microscope from 1880, original cultures of red-colored tubercle pathogens and the original of his Nobel Prize certificate from 1905. Numerous letters and photographs reminded of important students of Koch such as Friedrich Loeffler , Georg Gaffky and the Japanese Kitasato Shibasaburō . Memorabilia and numerous visiting cards from Japan bear witness to his travels. There were a total of around 300 objects in the collection. In 1982 the exhibition was redesigned.

Robert Koch Forum

In September 2009 the Liegenschaftsfonds Berlin sold the “most expensive property from the Charité portfolio” to the Arcadia Berlin Stiftung gGmbH. The museum closed immediately afterwards. The holdings are part of the university archive of the Humboldt University of Berlin .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A great scholarly life in Berlin. In: Berliner Zeitung . November 5, 1961, Sunday edition, Vol. 17, No. 305, p. 13.
  2. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  3. ^ Robert Koch at Clara-Zetkin-Strasse 99. In: Berliner Zeitung . June 15, 1960, No. 158, Volume 16, p. 11
  4. ↑ Small souvenir of a great life. In: new Germany . February 22, 1966, No. 53, Volume 21, p. 8
  5. ↑ A glory sheet of medicine. In: New Time . November 8, 1978, No. 264, Volume 34, p. 8
  6. ↑ Of the greatest use to mankind - memorial in honor of Robert Koch. In: New Time . January 15, 1982, No. 12, Volume 38, p. 6
  7. ↑ Where Koch gave a lecture. In: Berliner Zeitung . February 4, 1982, No. 29, Volume 38, p. 9
  8. ^ Arcadia Berlin Foundation buys Charité property . In: Ärzte Zeitung , September 8, 2009, accessed on April 20, 2019.