Edwin Klebs (1834-1913) was a Swiss-German microbiologist known for his work on infectious diseases. In 1884, he was the first to identify (with Friedrich Löffler) a bacterium that causes diphtheria, then known as Klebs-Löffler bacillus and now known as Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Photo circa 1884.

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