Karl Joseph Eberth

Karl Joseph Eberth (21 September 1835 – 2 December 1926) was a German pathologist and bacteriologist who was a native of Würzburg.

Karl Joseph Eberth
Born(1835-09-21)21 September 1835
Würzburg
Died2 December 1926(1926-12-02) (aged 91)
Berlin
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Würzburg
Known forDiscovery of the typhoid bacillus
Scientific career
FieldsBacteriology, Pathology
Doctoral studentsOswald Bumke

Biography

In 1859 he earned his doctorate at the University of Würzburg, and became an assistant to anatomist Albert von Kölliker (1817–1905). 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.[1] In 1884 pathologist Georg Theodor August Gaffky (1850–1918) confirmed Eberth's findings,[2] 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 enterica subspecies enterica serovar Typhi.[3][4]

Associated eponyms

Selected works
  • Untersuchungen über nematoden, (Leipzig : W. Engelmann, 1863).
  • Zur Kenntnis der Bacteritischen Mykosen, (Leipzig : Engelmann, 1872).[7]
  • Zur kenntniss der blutplättchen bei den niederen wirbelthieren, (Leipzig, Engelmann, 1887).
  • Die Thrombose nach Versuchen und Leichenbefunden, with Curt Schimmelbusch, (Stuttgart, 1888).
  • Die männlichen Geschlechtsorgane, (Jena, Fischer, 1904).[8]
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See also

References

Parts of this article are based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.

  1. See:
  2. Gaffky (1884) "Zur Aetiology des Abdominaltyphus" (On the etiology of abdominal typhus), Mittheilungen aus dem Kaiserlichen Gesundheitsamte, 2 : 372-420.
  3. Physician and surgeon, Volume 14 by J. W. Keating
  4. Journal of Nepal Health Research Council Vol.3 No.2 October 2005 Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Antibiotic Sensitivity Pattern of Salmonella Species Isolated from Blood Culture
  5. Mondofacto Dictionary (definition of eponym)
  6. Mondofacto Dictionary (definition of eponym)
  7. IDREF.fr bibliography
  8. The Online Books Page published works
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