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Löffler
[ lœf-luhr ]
noun
- Frie·drich Au·gust Jo·han·nes [free, -d, r, i, kh, , ou, -g, oo, st yoh-, hah, -n, uh, s], 1852–1915, German bacteriologist.
Löffler
/ lŭf′lər /
- German bacteriologist who in 1884 demonstrated that diphtheria was caused by a bacillus described by Edwin Klebs a year earlier. This bacillus is now named after both scientists. Löffler also isolated an organism that causes food poisoning and developed a vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease (1899).
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