Emil Adolf of Behring, (* 15. March 1854 in Hans village, circle rose mountain in the province west Prussia, as Emil Adolf Behring; "† 31. March 1917 in Marburg) was a German bacteriologist and Serologe.

Life

Emil Adolf of Behring buildup as the fifth of twelve children of a village school teacher in conditions. After promptly its school gift was recognized, different scholarships made the distribution of the Abitur for it possible; the study of the medicine aimed at by it seemed without large support however not eligible for financing, why Behring hit the military-medical career, in which for each study term one service year was taken into account.

On 2 October 1874 it occurred the emperor William academy for the military-medical nature Berlin. It followed at that time there at the same time that resident Corps Suevo Borussia - a student connection -. it was appointed attained a doctorate to 1878, 1889 to Institut for infections in Berlin as Robert cook, where it developed in the summer 1890 the bases for the serum therapy and in community with the Japanese Shibasaburo Kitasato the Tetanusantitoxin discovered. Since 1891 he - supports partially from Paul Ehrlich - worked on the development of the Diphtherieantitoxine. Finally this made the victory possible over this up to then often deadly running illness.

Since had the Prussian ministry for education and cultural tried 1892 to shift Behring to a chair a university to provide in order this larger action clearance and means for own research. Differences with cook let this step appear all the more urgent. To the winter semester 1894/95 Behring a place stepped as an extraordinary professor for hygiene at the university resounds on.

1895 took over Behring the chair and the line of the hygenic institute of the University of Marburg, where also the Behring works originated in to 1904. it succumbed to 1917 in its Marburger house of a pneumonia.

For its earnings/services in the serum therapy, particularly in the fight against the Diphtherie, he was honoured and ennobled in the year 1901 with the first Nobelpreis for physiology or medicine.

See also

Robert cook, Paul Ehrlich, Impfung, Emil of Behring High School

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