Robert Kochs's Curriculum Vitae, Activities and Expeditions (table)

Date:  21/03/2024

Education and Personal Details
11.12.1843 Born in Clausthal/Harz
02.04.1862 Final school-leaving certificate (Abitur)
1862 – 1866 Studied medicine in Göttingen
10.01.1866 PhD in Göttingen, Study visit to Berlin
12.03.1866 License to practice medicine
16.07.1867 Married Emmy Fraatz
1870/71 War between Germany and France, Army hospital service
16.03.1872 Intermediate preclinical examination
06/1893 Divorce from Emmy Koch
13.09.1893 Married Hedwig Freiberg
01.10.1904 Retired at his own request
11.12.1905 Nobel Prize Award ceremony in Stockholm
1908 Visit to Kitasato in Japan and relatives in the USA
27.05.1910 Died in Baden-Baden
30.05.1910 Cremated in Baden-Baden
04.12.1910 Koch's ashes were laid to rest in a specially constructed mausoleum at the Royal Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases.
Activities up to 1880
1866 Medical clerkship at the General Hospital in Hamburg
1866 "Education and care facility for mentally handicapped children" in Langenhagen near Hanover
1868 Physician in Niemegk/Potsdam
1869 Physician in Ragkwitz/Posen
1872 Appointment as the district medical officer in the district Bomst, Posen Province, Place of residence: Wollstein
Berlin
1880 – 1885 Government councillor in the Imperial Health Office
1885 – 1891 First Professor for Hygiene in Berlin, Friedrich Wilhelms University
1891 – 1904 Director of the Royal Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases
Expeditions and Congresses
The list of expeditions which Koch embarked on to carry out research into various infectious diseases and the important congresses which he attended, testify to the diversity and the mobility of a research scientist at a time when travel was not easy.
1883 – 1884 Cholera in Egypt and India
1885 International Sanitary Conference/Rome
1896 – 1897 Rinderpest in South Africa
1897 The plague in India
1897 – 1898 The plague, malaria, Texas fever and tsetse-fly disease in East Africa
1898 Malaria in Italy
1899 Malaria and quinine in Italy
1899 – 1900 Malaria in Batavia (Jakarta) and New Guinea
1901 International Tuberculosis Congress in London
1901 – 1902 Malaria on the Brionian Islands (Istria)
1903 – 1904 East Coast Fever and Equine Plague in British South Africa
1904 – 1905 Tsetse flies and trypanosomes in East Africa (private expedition)
1906 – 1907 Sleeping disease in East Africa
1908 International Conference on Sleeping Disease in London
1908 International Tuberculosis Congress in Washington D.C.
1908 Stay in Japan