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BY the death of Prof. Wilhelm Kolle at sixty-six years of age, on May 10, Germany loses one of her foremost bacteriologists, whose reputation was world-wide. Qualifying in medicine in 1892, Kolle entered the Institute of Infectious Diseases in Berlin in 1893 and became assistant to Robert Koch. By virtue of his position and work in that Institute, he was invited in 1897 by the Cape Government to conduct a scientific expedition in South Africa for the study of leprosy and rinderpest, and in 1900 was sent on a similar mission by the Egyptian Government to the Sudan, where he founded a laboratory at Khartoum. He was afterwards for a time professor of hygiene and bacteriology in the University of Berne, arid in 1915 succeeded Paul Ehrlich as director of the Institute for Experimental Therapy in Frankfort-on-Main, where he remained for the rest of his life.
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HEWLETT, R. Prof. Wilhelm Kolle. Nature 135, 946 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135946a0
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