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"I regard it as the greatest discovery ever made with bacteria and I believe that this is not the last time that this young Robert Koch will surprise and shame us by the brilliance of his investigations." said Cohn after Koch's discovery of Anthrax.
Dr. Robert Koch was a German Physician and a founder of Bacteriology.
After being a feild surgeon he made the switch to being a district surgeon in Wollstain. It was there Koch was cut off from having any public use of libraries, scientific workers and equipment. So he created his own, which happened to be his very own 4 bedroom house. There he started shifting his studies from Algea to diseas causing organisms. In 1876 he discovered Anthrax disease and Turbercle bacillus in 1882 which is the bacteria that causes Tuberculosis. In 1883 he went to India to study Cholera. in 1885 he was assigned as a professor at the university of Berlin, he was appointed as general surgeon in 1890. He also married once more to Hedwig Freiberg in 1893. At this point in time he went back to studying TB. During his last few years of life, Robert was awarded countless prizes and medals Including the Nobel Prize in 1905 for medicine.
Dr. Robert Koch died in Baden-Baden. on May 27th 1910
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Robert Koch was born in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany on December 11th of 1843. Koch was one of the oldest of 13 children. He was the son of Hermann Koch a third generation mining engineer, and his mother Mathilde Julie Henriette Biewend a iron inspectors daughter who also happened to be Hermanns Grandniece. A quick learner, at the age of 5 Robert picked up a newspaper and taught himself to read. In 1862 he attended the university of Gottingen to study medicine, and graduated in 1866. He wed to Emmy Fraats, who gave birth to his only child. After university he went to Berlin to observe chemical study for 6 months. In 1867 he went to Hamburg to work in a hospital as a general assistant, he did this again in Langenhagen and in Rackwitz. which is where he was able to achieve his District Medical Officer's Examination in 1869. After becoming a physcian in a number of different provincial towns, he for a brief period of time served as a field surgeon in 1870 during the Purssian war.
The honorary doctorates of the Universities of Heidelberg and Bologna, honorary citizenships of Berlin, Wollstein and his native Clausthal, and honorary memberships of learned societies and academies in Berlin, Vienna, Posen, Perugia, Naples and New York. He was awarded the German Order of the Crown, the Grand Cross of the German Order of the Red Eagle (the first time this high distinction was awarded a medical man), and Orders from Russia and Turkey. Long after his death, he was posthumously honored by memorials and in other ways in several countries