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Edwin Klebs

1834 - 1913

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Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs (6 February 1834 – 23 October 1913) was a German-Swiss microbiologist. He is mainly known for his work on infectious diseases. His works paved the way for the beginning of modern bacteriology, and inspired Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch. He was the first to identify a bacterium that causes diphtheria, which was called Klebs–Loeffler bacterium (now Corynebacterium diphtheriae). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edwin Klebs is the 396th most popular biologist (up from 507th in 2019), the 817th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,320th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Edwin Klebs ranks 396 out of 1,097. Before him are Carl Borivoj Presl, Carl Jakob Sundevall, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, William Elford Leach, James Bond, and Alexander von Nordmann. After him are Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Theodor Boveri, Georg Eberhard Rumphius, Ludwik Fleck, Karl Koch, and Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Edwin Klebs ranks 39. Before him are Lev Ivanov, Ludovic Halévy, José Hernández, Paul Kummer, James Gibbons, and Infanta Amalia of Spain. After him are Joachim III of Constantinople, Archduchess Maria Isabella of Austria, Carl Lange, Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, Kamehameha IV, and Adolf Lüderitz. Among people deceased in 1913, Edwin Klebs ranks 35. Before him are John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, Infanta Antónia of Portugal, Ğabdulla Tuqay, Song Jiaoren, Henry Flagler, and Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky. After him are Émile Ollivier, Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria, Carl Hagenbeck, Okakura Kakuzō, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo, and Mahmud Shevket Pasha.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Edwin Klebs ranks 817 out of 3,761. Before him are Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg (1838), Vasili Mitrokhin (1922), Joseph Trumpeldor (1880), Oleg Salenko (1969), Dmitry of Tver (1299), and Alexander Izvolsky (1856). After him are Dmitri Hvorostovsky (1962), Vyacheslav von Plehve (1846), Georgy Sviridov (1915), Eero Järnefelt (1863), Andrey II of Vladimir (1222), and Vasily Aksyonov (1932).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Edwin Klebs ranks 11. Before him are Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), Nikolay Pirogov (1810), Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), Alexander von Middendorff (1815), and Nikolai Severtzov (1827). After him are Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799), Vladimir Demikhov (1916), Dmitry Belyayev (1917), Franz Meyen (1804), Kliment Timiryazev (1843), and Fritz Schaudinn (1871).

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