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Karl Koester

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Died
  
1904

Name
  
Karl Koester

Institutions
  
University of Bonn

Fields
  
Nationality
  
German


Born
  
April 2, 1843Bad Durkheim (
1843-04-02
)

Notable students
  

Christie and Karl Koester Flashback Wedding - August 22, 2009


Karl Koester (born 2 April 1843 in Bad Dürkheim, died 1904) was a German pathologist and rector of the University of Bonn from 1898 to 1899. He was Professor of Pathology and director of the Institute of Pathology at the University of Bonn from 1874 to 1904. He held the title Geheimer Medizinalrat.

Koester studied medicine in Munich, Tübingen and Würzburg, and obtained his doctoral degree in Würzburg in 1867. His doctoral advisor and mentor was Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, and he subsequently worked as Recklinghausen's assistant. From 1873 to 1874 he was Professor of general medical pathology and anatomical pathology at the University of Giessen. He succeeded Eduard von Rindfleisch as Professor of Pathology at the University of Bonn in 1874.

In 1868 he published Ueber die feinere Structur der menschlichen Nabelschnur ("On the finer structure of the human umbilical cord").

References

Karl Koester Wikipedia


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