Karl Joseph Eberth
Academic
1835 – 1926
Who was Karl Joseph Eberth?
Karl Joseph Eberth was a German pathologist and bacteriologist who was a native of Würzburg.
In 1859 he earned his doctorate at the University of Würzburg, and became an assistant to anatomist Albert von Kölliker. In 1869 he became a full professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Zurich, and from 1881 until his retirement in 1911, he was a professor at the University of Halle.
In 1880 Eberth described a bacillus that he suspected was the cause of typhoid. In 1884 pathologist Georg Theodor August Gaffky confirmed Eberth's findings, and the organism was given names such as "Eberthella typhi", "Eberth's bacillus" and "Gaffky-Eberth bacillus". Today the bacillus that causes typhoid fever goes by the scientific name of Salmonella typhi.
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- Born
- Sep 21, 1835
Würzburg - Also known as
- Эберт, Карл Йозеф
- Ethnicity
- Germans
- Nationality
- Germany
- Education
- University of Würzburg
- Died
- Dec 2, 1926
Berlin
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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