Robert Koch

Also known as Koch, Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, Robert Heinrich Hermann Koch, R. Koch, R Koch, Koch R, Koch R.

German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)

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Robert Koch was a German biologist, physician, inventor, and photographer born in Clausthal in 1843. He held citizenship in the Kingdom of Hanover and the German Empire. Koch worked in the field of microbiology and was employed by the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He participated in the Franco-Prussian War. His doctoral advisors were Georg Meissner and Rudolf Virchow. He supervised doctoral students including Emil von Behring, Friedrich Loeffler, Kitasato Shibasaburō, and August von Wassermann.

Koch received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art. He was a member of the Royal Society, the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was educated at the University of Göttingen. His works include *Berichte über Die Tätigkeit der Malariaexpedition 1899-1900* and *Die Bekämpfung der Infektionskrankheiten Inbesondere der Kriegsseuchen*. He died of myocardial infarction in Baden-Baden in 1910.

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Works: 71

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Berichte über Die Tätigkeit der Malariaexpedition 1899-1900
CHRISTIANITY
Die Bekämpfung der Infektionskrankheiten Inbesondere der Kriegsseuchen
Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated - Robert Koch
Professor Koch on the Bacteriological Diagnosis of Cholera, Water-Filtration and Cholera, and the Cholera in Germany During the Winter Of 1892-93

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1905
“for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Heinrich
Family name: Koch
Gender: male
Citizenship: German Empire
Place of birth: Clausthal
Place of death: Baden-Baden
Occupation: military physician
Educated at: University of Göttingen
Employer: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Languages spoken: German
Notable work: Koch's postulates
Academic degree: Doctor
Doctoral advisor: Rudolf Virchow
Doctoral student: August von Wassermann
Field of work: microbiology
Conflict: Franco-Prussian War
Image: Robert Koch.jpg
Work location: German East Africa

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Commons category: Robert Koch
member of: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
cause of death: myocardial infarction
date of birth: 1843-12-11
date of death: 1910-05-27
topic's main category: Category:Robert Koch
manner of death: natural causes
Commons gallery: Robert Koch
nominated for: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
student: John Addison Fordyce
ethnic group: Germans
birth name: Robert Heinrich Hermann Koch
name in native language: Robert Heinrich Hermann Koch
archives at: Märkisches Museum
relative: William Threlfall
P8168: TNP
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
contributed to creative work: Popular Science

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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Robert Koch, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Bericht über die Untersuchungen des Berliner Leitungswassers in der Zeit vom 1.Juni 1885 bis 1.April 1896 ausgeführt im hygienischen Institut der Universität Berlin

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Encyclopedic overview

Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (/kɒx/ KOKH; German: [ˈʁoːbɛʁt kɔx] ; 11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) was a German physician and microbiologist. He won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis".

As the discoverer of the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases, including tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax, he is regarded as one of the main founders of modern bacteriology. As such, he is popularly nicknamed the father of microbiology (with Louis Pasteur), and as the father of medical bacteriology. His discovery of the anthrax bacterium (Bacillus anthracis) in 1876 is considered the birth of modern bacteriology. Koch used his discoveries to establish that germs "could cause a specific disease" and directly provided proofs for the germ theory of diseases, therefore creating the scientific basis of public health, saving millions of lives. For his life's work, Koch is seen as one of the founders of modern medicine.

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