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Ferdinand Cohn

Ferdinand Cohn

1828 CE–1898 CE · Breslau (Wrocław)

Ferdinand Julius Cohn (24 January 1828 – 25 June 1898) was a German biologist. He is one of the founders of modern bacteriology and microbiology.

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Breslau (Wrocław)Silesia

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About Breslau (Wrocław)

Breslau (Polish Wrocław), the principal city of Silesia (today in southwestern Poland), had a large and influential Jewish community in the modern era. In 1854 it became home to the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau, the first modern rabbinical seminary in Central Europe and a leading center of Wissenschaft des Judentums; its founding head was Rabbi Zacharias Frankel, the founder of the positive-historical school of Judaism.

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