Robert Koch (1843-1910)
Robert Koch was born on December 11, 1843 in Clausthal (Clausthal-Zellerfeld,
Harz).
He was the third son in a family of thirteen children and his father
worked as a miner.
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Studies and private life |
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11.12.1843 |
Born in Clausthal, Harz |
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16.01.1866 |
Doctorate in Göttingen |
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12.03.1866 |
Passes medical examinations in Hanover |
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1870/71 |
German-French war, duty in military hospitals |
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1880 - 1885 |
Councillor of the government at the Imperial
Health Authority in Berlin |
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1885 - 1891 |
First professor for hygiene in Berlin, Friedrich
Wilhelm University |
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1891 - 1904 |
Director of the Royal Prussian Institute for
Infectious Diseases |
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1880 - 1910 |
Full member of the Imperial Health Authority |
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10.12.1905 |
Nobel Prize awarded in Stockholm, Sweden |
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27.05.1910 |
Died in Baden-Baden |
Robert Koch suffered a severe heart attack at the
beginning of April 1910 in Berlin and died on May 27, 1910 while staying
at a health resort in Baden-Baden. He was cremated there according to
his own wishes and his ashes taken to Berlin.
Expeditions and congresses
The multitude of Robert Koch's expeditions to study
infectious diseases and the congresses he attended indicate the breadth
of his interests and the mobility of the researcher at a time when travelling
was rather tedious.
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1883 - 1884 |
Cholera in Egypt and India |
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1885 |
Major Conference on medical service (Sanitätskonferenz)
in Rome |
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1896 - 1897 |
Cattle pest in South Africa |
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1897 |
Plague in India |
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1897 - 1898 |
Plague, malaria, Texas fever, and tsetse disease
in East Africa |
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1898 |
Malaria in Italy |
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1899 |
Malaria and quinine in Italy |
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1899 - 1900 |
Malaria in Batavia (Jakarta) and New Guinea |
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1901 |
International Tuberculosis Congress in London |
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1901 - 1902 |
Malaria in Italy and Istria (Brioni Islands) |
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1903 - 1904 |
Coast fever and horse sickness in British South
Africa |
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1904 - 1905 |
Tsetse flies and trypanosomes in East Africa
(private expedition) |
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1906 - 1907 |
Sleeping sickness in East Africa |
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1908 |
International Conference on Sleeping Sickness
in London |
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1908 |
International Tuberculosis Congress in Washington
D.C. |
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