Wilhelm von Drigalski

Wilhelm von Drigalski (1871-1950) was a German bacteriologist, born in Dresden on 21 June 1871 and died in Wiesbaden on 12 May 1950. He was awarded a doctor of medicine degree by the University of Berlin in 1895 and afterwards served as a medical officer at the Charité hospital, where he worked under the supervision of Robert Koch. In Wiesbaden on 5 March 1905 he married the writer Liesbet Dill, daughter of the Dudweiler estate and brewery owner Friedrich Wilhelm Dill, and the couple had a daughter, Leonore, born in 1912, and a son, Wolfgang von Drigalski, who lived from 1907 to 1943. The source article about him is short, so this record is limited to his training, his service under Koch and the main dates of his life.