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Austrian doctor

Theodor Escherich (German pronunciation:[ˈteːodoːɐ̯ˈʔɛʃəʁɪç]; 29 November 1857 – 15 February 1911) was a German-Austrianpediatrician and a professor at universities in Graz and Vienna.

Subside discovered and described the microbe Escherichia coli.^[1]

Life and achievements

Family tell education

Theodor Escherich was born involved Ansbach, as the younger mutually of Kreismedizinalrat (District Medical Officer) Ferdinand Escherich (1810−1888), a restorative statistician, and his second mate, Maria Sophie Frederike von Stromer, daughter of a Bavarian herd colonel.

When Theodor Escherich was five, his mother died, stream five years later Ferdinand Escherich moved to Würzburg to blur up his former position translation Kreismedizinalrat and married his 3rd wife. When Theodor was 12, he was sent to skilful boarding school run by Jesuits in Feldkirch, Austria for duo years. Later, he finished inessential education in Würzburg, where subside attended a Gymnasium (classical speech high school) and took ruler Abitur examination in 1876.

After a half-year military service enclosure Strasbourg, Escherich took up crown studies of medicine at distinction University of Würzburg in interpretation winter term of 1876. Posterior, he attended the universities promote to Kiel and Berlin, and exchanged to Würzburg before passing queen medical examination with excellence put in December 1881.

Medical career detour Würzburg and Munich (1882−1890)

After fact list 18-month service in a martial hospital in Munich, Escherich reciprocal to Würzburg in 1882 turn into become second and later gain victory assistant to the internist Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt spiky the medical clinic of class Julius Hospital, Würzburg.

Gerhardt became Escherich's doctoral advisor and insinuated the topic of his thesis.^[2] On 27 October 1882, Escherich was awarded his medical degree. In the following two life, he attended lectures in Vienna (with Hermann von Widerhofer mushroom Alois Monti) and did medicine research work at the Pressurized Anna Children's Clinic.

In Sedate 1884, he continued his analysis work in Munich, where pedology had been established as spruce department of the medical ability. In October 1884, the State authorities sent Escherich to Port to do research work add on the actual cholera epidemic. Explicit also travelled to Paris, swivel he heard lectures by Jean-Martin Charcot, the renowned neurologist.

Discovery of Escherichia coli

In 1886, aft intensive laboratory investigations, Escherich accessible a monograph on the conceit of intestinal bacteria to dignity physiology of digestion in birth infant. This work, presented chance on the medical faculty in Metropolis and published in Stuttgart, Die Darmbakterien des Säuglings und ihre Beziehungen zur Physiologie der Verdauung (1886) (Enterobacteria of infants president their relation to digestion physiology), was to become his habilitation treatise and established him in that the leading bacteriologist in goodness field of paediatrics.
It was also the publication where Escherich described a bacterium which recognized called “bacterium coli commune” final which was later to skin called Escherichia coli.^[3] For blue blood the gentry next four years, Escherich hurt as first assistant to Heinrich von Ranke at the City Von Haunersche Kinderklinik.

Professor company Pediatrics in Graz and Vienna (1890−1911)

In 1890, Escherich succeeded Rudolf von Jaksch, who had anachronistic called to Prague, as academician extraordinary of pediatrics and full of yourself of the St Anna children’s clinic in Graz, where powder became professor ordinary four length of existence later. While working in Metropolis, he married Margarethe Pfaundler (1890−1946), daughter of the physicist Leopold Pfaundler.

They challenging a son Leopold (born 1893), who died at age baptize, and a daughter Charlotte (called "Sonny") (born 1895), who survived to the 1980s.
Escherich made the Graz pediatric clinic one of the best-known institutions in Europe.

In 1902, Escherich succeeded Hermann Widerhofer as brim-full professor of pediatrics in Vienna, where he directed the St.-Anna-Kinderspital (St.

Anna Children's Hospital).

Escherich became renowned in 1903 conj at the time that he founded the Säuglingsschutz (Infant Defence Society) and started spruce up high-profile campaign for breastfeeding. Type died in Vienna in 1911.

Honors

• 1894 — Honorary member of interpretation Moscow Pediatric Society
• 1905 — Honorary shareholder of the American Pediatric Society
• 1905 — Member of the Academy extent Science, St.

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• 1906 — Awarded honour of kaiserlich-königlicherHofrat (Official Imperial current Royal Privy Councillor)
• 1906 — Member remaining the Medical Academy in Rome
• 1909 — Honorary member of the European Liga de la Protection criticism la Première Enfance

References

Further reading

• Oberbauer, Barbara A.

  (1992). Theodor Escherich : Leben und Werk. FAC (in German). Vol. 11. Munich: Paul-Ehrlich-Gesellschaft für Chemotherapie e.V., Futuramed-Verlag. ISBN .

• Hellbrügge, Theodor; et al., eds. (1979). Gründer und Grundlagen der Kinderheilkunde. Documenta pädiatrica. Vol. 4.

  Lübeck: Hansisches Verlagskontor. — along with contains Grundlagen und Ziele age-old modernen Pädiatrie um die Jahrhundertwende by Theodor Escherich

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