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Germany’s Public Health institute RKI monitors the population’s health and wellbeing. more
The Robert Koch Institute is the German government's central institution for the identification, surveillance and prevention of infectious diseases in the Portfolio of the German Ministry of Health. more
| Education and Personal Details | |
|---|---|
| 11.12.1843 | Born in Clausthal/Harz |
| 02.04.1862 | Final school-leaving certificate (Abitur) |
| 1862 – 1866 | Studied medicine in Göttingen |
| 10.01.1866 | PhD in Göttingen, Study visit to Berlin |
| 12.03.1866 | License to practice medicine |
| 16.07.1867 | Married Emmy Fraatz |
| 1870/71 | War between Germany and France, Army hospital service |
| 16.03.1872 | Intermediate preclinical examination |
| 06/1893 | Divorce from Emmy Koch |
| 13.09.1893 | Married Hedwig Freiberg |
| 01.10.1904 | Retired at his own request |
| 11.12.1905 | Nobel Prize Award ceremony in Stockholm |
| 1908 | Visit to Kitasato in Japan and relatives in the USA |
| 27.05.1910 | Died in Baden-Baden |
| 30.05.1910 | Cremated in Baden-Baden |
| 04.12.1910 | Koch's ashes were laid to rest in a specially constructed mausoleum at the Royal Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases. |
| Activities up to 1880 | |
|---|---|
| 1866 | Medical clerkship at the General Hospital in Hamburg |
| 1866 | "Education and care facility for mentally handicapped children" in Langenhagen near Hanover |
| 1868 | Physician in Niemegk/Potsdam |
| 1869 | Physician in Ragkwitz/Posen |
| 1872 | Appointment as the district medical officer in the district Bomst, Posen Province, Place of residence: Wollstein |
| Berlin | |
|---|---|
| 1880 – 1885 | Government councillor in the Imperial Health Office |
| 1885 – 1891 | First Professor for Hygiene in Berlin, Friedrich Wilhelms University |
| 1891 – 1904 | Director of the Royal Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases |
| Expeditions and Congresses | |
|---|---|
| The list of expeditions which Koch embarked on to carry out research into various infectious diseases and the important congresses which he attended, testify to the diversity and the mobility of a research scientist at a time when travel was not easy. | |
| 1883 – 1884 | Cholera in Egypt and India |
| 1885 | International Sanitary Conference/Rome |
| 1896 – 1897 | Rinderpest in South Africa |
| 1897 | The plague in India |
| 1897 – 1898 | The plague, malaria, Texas fever and tsetse-fly disease in East Africa |
| 1898 | Malaria in Italy |
| 1899 | Malaria and quinine in Italy |
| 1899 – 1900 | Malaria in Batavia (Jakarta) and New Guinea |
| 1901 | International Tuberculosis Congress in London |
| 1901 – 1902 | Malaria on the Brionian Islands (Istria) |
| 1903 – 1904 | East Coast Fever and Equine Plague in British South Africa |
| 1904 – 1905 | Tsetse flies and trypanosomes in East Africa (private expedition) |
| 1906 – 1907 | Sleeping disease in East Africa |
| 1908 | International Conference on Sleeping Disease in London |
| 1908 | International Tuberculosis Congress in Washington D.C. |
| 1908 | Stay in Japan |
Date: 21.03.2024
