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Robert Heinrich Hermann (Robert) Koch

Born 11 Dec 1843 in Clausthal, Hannover, Deutscher Bund

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Died 27 May 1910 at age 66 in Baden-Baden, Baden, Deutsches Reich

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Biography

Robert Koch was born in Clausthal, Hanover, Germany, on 11 December 1843, to Obergrubensteiger Hermann Koch and Mathilde Julie Henriette Biewend.^[1][2]

Field: bacteriology, disease transmission

Robert married Adolfine Fraatz on the 16th July, 1867, in Clausthal, Zellerfeld, Hannover, Prussia, Germany.^[3]

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1. ↑ Church book Clausthal, Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelisch-lutherischen Landeskirche Hannovers / Kirchenkreis Clausthal-Zellerfeld / Clausthal / Taufen 1841-1848 Archion image 122
2. ↑ Metchnikoff, Elie. The Founders of Modern Medicine: Pasteur, Koch, Lister. Classics of Medicine Library: Delanco, 2006.
3. ↑ "Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPD9-Z3GB : 25 March 2020), Adolfine Sophie Emilie Fraatz in entry for Hermann Heinrich Robert Koch, 16 Jul 1867; images digitized and records extracted by Ancestry; citing Marriage, Clausthal, Zellerfeld, Hannover, Preußen, Deutschland, Clausthal, Kr, Sankt Andreasberg u. Zellerfeld, German Lutheran Collection, various parishes, Germany.

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