Arnold Klebs

Arnold Carl Klebs ( born March 17, 1870 in Bern, † March 6, 1943 in Nyon, homeland justified in Upper Castle ) was a tuberculosis specialist Swiss- American physician and medical historian.

Life

Klebs was the son of bacteriologists Edwin Klebs. He studied in Zurich, Berlin, Kiel, Würzburg, Bern and Basel. In Basel, he became in 1895 a doctorate. He completed advanced training in Zurich, London, Paris and Baltimore. In 1896 he succeeded his father in the United States. In Chicago he had from 1898 to 1909 a medical practice. He was also director of the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute. In 1904, he received U.S. citizenship.

In 1909 he returned to Switzerland and settled in Nyon down. His acquired in the U.S. wealth enabled him to devote himself primarily to the history of medicine and to compile a comprehensive medical history and scientific library with valuable incunabula. His villa "Les Terrasses " on Lake Geneva became the meeting place for practitioners and students.

Klebs was co-founder of the Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences ( SGGMN ) and Honorary Member of the American Association for the History of Medicine. Klebs was married twice, his first wife, Margaret Forbes, in second with Harriet K. Newell.

His library he left Yale University. They formed a nucleus of the " Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library." The Medical Historical Library dedicated Klebs 2008, an exhibition on the life and work.

Writings

• Incunabula scientifica et medica. The Saint Catherine Press Ltd.. , 1938.
• The historic evolution of variolation. In: Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1913.
• The first printed Pestschriften. With K. Sudhoff. Historical and bibliographical studies. , 1926.
• The history of the infection. In: Annals of medical history, PB Hoeber, 1918.
• Leonardo da Vinci and his anatomical studies., 1916.
• Balneology in the Middle Ages.
• The variolation in the eighteenth century. An historical contribution to Immunitatsforschung. In: Science, 1915.
• About edematous changes in the anterior corneal epithelium. G. Fischer, Jena 1895.