Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs was a German-Swiss pathologist and microbiologist, born in Königsberg in 1834 and dying in Bern in 1913. He studied under Rudolf Virchow, served as his assistant at the Charité in Berlin, and then held professorships in pathology at Bern, Würzburg, Prague and Zurich before teaching at Rush Medical College in Chicago. His best known achievement is the 1883 identification of the bacterium that causes diphtheria, long called the Klebs-Loeffler bacillus and now Corynebacterium diphtheriae. He also described acromegaly in 1884, inoculated syphilis into monkeys in 1878, and produced tuberculosis experimentally in animals. The bacterial genus Klebsiella is named in his honor. His work helped prepare the ground for modern bacteriology.
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Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs (6 February 1834
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23 October 1913)
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was a German-Swiss microbiologist
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He was the first to identify a bacterium that causes diphtheria
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professor of pathology at the University of Bern
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