Löffler, Friedrich August Johann

Christoph Gradmann, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Published online: September 2005

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002504

1852–1915 German Bacteriologist and Virologist who identified the organism that causes diptheria, and described the causative agent of foot-and-mouth disease.

 Further Reading
    book Brieger G (1973) "Löffler Friedrich August Johannes". In: Gillespie CC (ed.) Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. VIII, pp. 448–451. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
    book Löffler F (1887) Vorlesungen über die geschichtliche Entwicklung der Lehre von den Bakterien. Leipzig: Vogel.
    Schmiedebach HP (1999) The Prussian state and microbiological research: Friedrich Löffler and his approach to the ‘invisible’ virus. Archives of Virology. Supplementum. 15: 9–23.

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Gradmann, Christoph(Sep 2005) Löffler, Friedrich August Johann. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0002504]