Edwin Klebs (1834-1913),German-Swiss pathologist. Klebs worked on infectious diseases,inspiring the later work of Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch. Klebs was the first to identify Corynebacterium diphtheriae,the bacterium that causes diphtheria. This bacterium was originally called the Klebs-Loeffler bacterium. Klebs was an assistant to Rudolf Virchow in 1861,and worked as a pathologist in the faculties in Berne (1866),Wurzburg (1871),Prague (1873),Zurich (1882) and Chicago (1896),then returning to Berlin and retiring to Switzerland. This photograph dating from after 1900,was published by Deschiens |