Paul Clemens von Baumgarten

Paul Clemens von Baumgarten (1848 to 1928) was a German pathologist, born in Dresden, the son of a physician. He took his medical doctorate at Leipzig in 1873, served as prosector at the pathological-anatomical institute in Königsberg from 1874 to 1879 and became associate professor of pathological anatomy in 1881. In 1889 he was appointed professor of pathological anatomy and general pathology at the University of Tübingen, where he also worked in bacteriology. In 1882 he described the tuberculosis bacillus in the same year as Robert Koch. He wrote a well regarded textbook of pathological mycology and edited a yearly review of research on pathogenic organisms from 1885 to 1917. He died in Tübingen in 1928.