Statue of Robert Koch German Microbiologist, who identified cause of Tuberculosis, Anthrax & cholera near Charite Hospital, Mitte,Berlin

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Statue of Robert Koch German Microbiologist, founder of microbiology who identified cause of Tuberculosis, Anthrax & cholera near Charite Hospital, Mitte, Berlin . The Charité Hospital Campus,Teaching hospital affiliated with Humboldt University and Freie Universität Berlin. The Charite is rated as the best in Germany and has intensive research programmes. More than half of all German Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine, including Emil von Behring, Robert Koch and Paul Ehrlich came from the Charité. The hospital was established north of the Berlin city walls in 1710 on the orders of King Frederick I of Prussia to deal with a possible outbreak of the bubonic plague that had affected East Prussia. The plague did not reach Berlin and the hospital became a charity hospital for the poor. In 1727, Frederick William I of Prussia gave it the name Charité. An anatomical theatre was constructed in 1913 and this marks the beginning of the Medical School.

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Size: 3407px × 4770px
Location: Robert Koch Platz,Mitte,Berlin,Germany
Photo credit: © Eden Breitz / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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