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Klebs
Klebs is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Arnold Klebs (1870–1943), Swiss microbiologist and physician; son of Edwin Klebs *Edwin Klebs (1834–1913), German-born Swiss pathologist and army medic; father of Arnold Klebs *Elimar Klebs (1852–1918), German historian; brother of Georg Klebs *Georg Klebs (1857–1918), German botanist; brother of Elimar Klebs See also * KLEB, American radio station in Louisiana *Rosa Klebb Colonel Rosa Klebb is a fictional character, the main antagonist in the James Bond From Russia, with Love (novel), 1957 novel and From Russia with Love (film), 1963 film ''From Russia with Love'', in which she is played by Lotte Lenya. She was ..., fictional villain in ''From Russia with Love'' (Ian Fleming novel, 1957/Terence Young film, 1963) * Sarah Hayes (crossword compiler) (pen named Rosa Klebb; born ?), British cryptic crossword setter {{surname, Klebs German-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Klebs
Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs (6 February 1834 – 23 October 1913) was a German-Swiss microbiologist. He is mainly known for his work on infectious diseases. His works paved the way for the beginning of modern bacteriology, and inspired Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch. He was the first to identify a bacterium that causes diphtheria, which was called Klebs–Loeffler bacterium (now ''Corynebacterium diphtheriae''). He was the father of physician Arnold Klebs. Life Klebs was born in Königsberg, Province of Prussia. He studied at the University of Würzburg under Rudolf Virchow in 1855 and received his doctorate at the University of Berlin in 1858. He achieved his habilitation at the University of Königsberg the following year. Klebs was an assistant to Virchow at the Charité in Berlin from 1861 until 1866, when he became a professor of pathology at the University of Bern in Switzerland. He married Rosa Grossenbacher, a Swiss, and also acquired Swiss citizenship. He served as a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Klebs
Arnold C. Klebs (March 17, 1870 – March 6, 1943) was a Swiss physician who specialized in the study of tuberculosis. Born in Bern, Switzerland, Arnold Klebs, the son of renowned bacteriologist Edwin Klebs, was raised in the presence of an extensive array of scientists, artists, and historians. In his teenage years, Klebs was one of Switzerland's pioneer bicycle racers. Klebs received a medical degree from the University of Basel in 1896, then moved to the United States to practice medicine. Klebs worked with William Osler at Johns Hopkins University for a year after arriving in the U.S. and was a contemporary of William H. Welch. Following his work with Osler, he worked as a sanatorium director and tuberculosis specialist in Citronelle, Alabama and Chicago, Illinois. Given his long experience with the ailment, Klebs was named one of the first directors of the National Tuberculosis Institute. In 1910, he returned to his native Switzerland, and settled in a villa on Lake Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Klebs
Georg Albrecht Klebs (23 October 1857 – 15 October 1918) was a German botanist from Neidenburg (Nidzica), Prussia. His brother was the historian Elimar Klebs. Life Klebs studied chemistry, philosophy, and art history at the University of Königsberg and became an assistant to Anton de Bary at the University of Strassburg. After his military service, Klebs became an assistant to Julius Sachs at the University of Würzburg and Wilhelm Pfeffer at the University of Tübingen. He became a professor at the University of Basel in 1887, the University of Halle in 1898, and the University of Heidelberg in 1907, where he founded today's botanical garden, the Botanischer Garten der Universität Heidelberg. Klebs received a Croonian Lectureship in 1910. From 1910 to 1912 he travelled through Siberia, Japan, Java, India, the Caucasus, and southern Russia. In 1913 he participated in an expedition to Egypt. He died in Heidelberg from influenza during the 1918 influenza pandemic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elimar Klebs
Elimar Klebs (15 October 1852 – 16 May 1918) was a German historian of ancient history. He was the brother of botanist Georg Klebs. Biography Klebs was born in Braunsberg (Braniewo), Prussia. He studied in Berlin under Theodor Mommsen and Heinrich von Treitschke, receiving his doctorate in 1876 and his habilitation in 1883.Hessische Biografie biographical sketch Subsequently, he served as a in Berlin. Along with and Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosa Klebb
Colonel Rosa Klebb is a fictional character, the main antagonist in the James Bond From Russia, with Love (novel), 1957 novel and From Russia with Love (film), 1963 film ''From Russia with Love'', in which she is played by Lotte Lenya. She was a Soviet Counterintelligence, counter-intelligence operative until being discharged and joining SPECTRE. Klebb's name is a pun on the popular Soviet Union, Soviet phrase for women's rights, ''khleb i rozy'' (Cyrillic: хлеб и розы), which in turn was a direct Russian translation of the internationally used labour union slogan "bread and roses". Novel biography In the 1957 novel ''From Russia, with Love (novel), From Russia, with Love'', Colonel Rosa Klebb is a high-ranking member of the feared Russian Counterintelligence, counter-intelligence agency SMERSH, where she serves as the supervisor of Department II (operations and executions). It is strongly implied in the novel that she is a lesbian; Ian Fleming believed the descripti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Hayes (crossword Compiler)
Sarah Hayes, usually known as Arachne, is a British cryptic crossword setter. She sets puzzles for ''The Guardian'', ''The Independent'' (as Anarche), the ''Financial Times'' (as Rosa Klebb), the ''New Statesman'' (as Aranya), and ''The Times'', and advanced cryptics for ''The Listener'' crossword (''The Times''), Enigmatic Variations (''The Daily Telegraph'') and the Inquisitor (''The Independent''). Hayes's clues are often smutty or political and make frequent use of the generic ''she''. Biography Hayes holds an MPhil in Russian and between 1979 and 1997 was a lecturer in Russian studies at the Victoria University of Manchester, where she published ''A Study of English Nautical Loanwords in the Russian Language of the Eighteenth Century''. Hayes's first crossword was published in the ''Independent Saturday Magazine'' on 25 May 1996, and after setting some advanced barred grid cryptics for various papers on a freelance basis, she was hired by ''The Guardian'' to help set up t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |