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Friedländer's name is familiar to every medical student through ‘Friedländer's bacillus’, which he described in 1882. A capsulated micrococcus, this is not now considered pathogenic for true lobar pneumonia, though it may cause the accompanying septicæmia. A native of Brieg in Silesia, Carl Friedländer was born a century ago on November 19, 1847. After taking the M.D. at the University of Berlin, he became assistant to Friedrich von Recklinghausen at Strassburg in 1874, and five years later was appointed to the modest post of assistant superintendent of post-mortem examinations in the Friedrichshain Hospital, Berlin. The courtesy title of professor was conferred on him only a few months before his death. Founder-editor of the Fortschritte der Medicin, Friedländer brought that journal to the front rank of German scientific periodicals. Among his most original work may be mentioned his description of thromboangiitis obliterans and his recognition of the tuberculous nature of lupus. He himself was a victim of pulmonary tuberculosis, which first manifested itself about 1882. His “Mikroskopische Technik” was a manual valued by student and expert alike.
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Carl Friedländer (1847–87). Nature 160, 668 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160668b0
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