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Theodor Escherich was a German-Austrian pediatrician and a professor at the University of Graz and the University of Vienna. He discovered and described the bacterium Escherichia coli.
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science · Austrian doctor · biologist · physician · university teacher · pediatrician · bacteriologist · also Theodor Escherich, Escherich
Born 29 November 1857 · Died 15 February 1911 · Q77686
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Died 1911-02-15.
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When he founded the Säuglingsschutz (Infant Defence Society) and started a high-profile campaign for breastfeeding
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Escherich succeeded Hermann Widerhofer as full professor of pediatrics in Vienna, where he directed the St
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Escherich succeeded Rudolf von Jaksch, who had been called to Prague, as professor extraordinary of pediatrics and director of the St Anna children’s clinic in Graz, where he became professor ordinary four years later
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After intensive laboratory investigations, Escherich published a monograph on the relationship of intestinal bacteria to the physiology of digestion in the infant
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To become second and later first assistant to the internist Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt in the medical clinic of the Julius Hospital, Würzburg
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After a half-year military service in Strasbourg, Escherich took up his studies of medicine at the University of Würzburg in the winter term of 1876.
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Born 1857-11-29.
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Theodor Escherich was born in Ansbach, as the younger son of Kreismedizinalrat (District Medical Officer) Ferdinand Escherich (1810−1888), a medical statistician, and his second wife, Maria Sophie Frederike von Stromer, daughter of a Bavarian army colonel.
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