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Edwin Klebs
Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs
(6 February 1834 – 23 October 1913) was a German-Swiss
pathologist
. 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
). He is the father of physician
Arnold Klebs
.
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