Friedrich Julius Rosenbach, also known as Anton Julius Friedrich Rosenbach, (16 December 1842 – 6 December 1923) was a German physician and microbiologist. He is credited for differentiating ''Staphylococcus aureus'' and ''Staphylococcus albus'', which is now called ''Staphylococcus epidermidis'', in 1884. He also described and named ''Streptococcus pyogenes''.

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is also named in his honor.

Biography

Rosenbach was born in Grohnde an der Weser on 16 December 1842. He studied in

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. He obtained his doctorate in 1867. He married Franziska Merkel on 12 May 1877. Rosenbach died on 6 December 1923 in Göttingen.

Literature

*''Ueber einige pathologische Veränderungen nach subcutaner Injection von Quecksilber bei Thieren (Kaninchen).'' Doctoral dissertation, 1867. Also in enle and Pfeuffer's''Zeitschrift für rationelle Medicin'', Leipzig and Heidelberg. *''Untersuchungen über den Einfluss von Carbolsäure gegen das Zustandekommen der pyämischen und putriden Infection bei Tieren.'' Habilitation thesis for Privatdozent, Göttingen, 1872. *''Mikro-Organismen bei den Wund-infections-krankheiten des Menschen.'' Wiesbaden, J. F. Bergmann, 1884. *''Zur Aetiologie des Wundstarrkrampfes der Menschen.'' ''Verhandlungen der deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie'', Berlin, 1886. *''Über das Erysipeloid.'' ''Verhandlungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie'', 1887. *''Experimentelle Beiträge zur Frage: Kann Eiterung ohne Mitbetheiligung von Microorganismen durch todte Stoffe entstehen?'' With Kreibohm. ''Verhandlungen der deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie'', 1888. *''Der Hospitalbrand.'' ''Deutsche Chirurgie'', volume 6, Stuttgart 1888. *''Über die tieferen eiternden Schimmelerkrankungen der Haut und deren Ursachen.'' Wiesbaden, 1894. *''Über die tiefen und eiternden Trichophyton-Erkrankungen und deren Krankheitserreger.'' Transactions of the Third International Congress of Dermatology, London, 1896. *''Behandlung der Gangrän und Phlegmon in Umgebung der Mundhöhle, Noma, Phlegmonen; Angina Ludovici, gewöhnl. Phlegm., Scharlachphlegmon, Glossitis, Hemiglossitisphlegmon.'' Chapter in ''Handbuch der Therapie innerer Krankheiten'', by Franz Penzoldt and Roderich Stintzing, 1898. *''Chirurgische Knochen- und Gelenkkrankheiten.'' Chapter in ''Handbuch der praktischen Medizin'', edited by Wilhelm Ebstein (1836-1912) and Gustav Albert Schwalbe (1844-1916). *Biography in H. R. Grote: ''Die Medizin der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen.'' Leipzig, 1923; volume 2, page 187.

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