Ferdinand Julius Cohn

See also: Cohn

Ferdinand Julius Cohn is a Botaniste and a German microbiologist , born the January 24th 1828 with Breslau and dead the June 25th 1898 in this same city.

Wire of tradesman, he suffers from a loss of hearing at ten years. After its baccalaureat, he studies the Médecine with Breslau and Berlin and obtains a doctorate in 1847 at nineteen years. He is Privatdozent at the institute of physiology of the university of Breslau then is named professor of botany in 1851 and directs the institute in 1859.

He receives the Médaille Leeuwenhoek in 1885 and the Médaille linnéenne in 1895. He studies the Bactérie S which he classifies among the plants. He is the first to describe the cycle of Bacillus . Ferdinand Julius Cohn became foreign member of Royal Society the March 4th 1897.

It is considered that it is one of the founders, with Robert Koch (1843-1910), of the modern Bactériologie. He discovers the Botanical garden Lorenz Scholz von Rosenau (1552-1599) in Breslau. It buried in the Jewish cemetery of Breslau where its tomb is always visible.

Works

Zur Naturgeschichte of Protococcus Pluvialis , Bonn 1851
Die Menschheit und die Pflanzenwelt , Breslau 1851
Der Haushalt der Pflanzen , Leipzig 1854
Untersuchungen über die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Mikroskopischen Algen und Pilze , Bonn 1854
Beiträge zur Biology der Pflanzen (Schriftenreihe, Breslau, 1870 begründet)
Neue Untersuchungen über Bakterien , Bonn 1872-1875
Die Pflanze , Leipzig 1882

External bonds

Biography on breslau-wroclaw.de (in German)
Biography (in English)

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