Löffler

American  

[lœf-luhr] / ˈlœf lər /

noun

1. Friedrich August Johannes 1852–1915, German bacteriologist.

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Löffler Scientific  

/ lŭf′lər /

1. 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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Example Sentences

He hung around the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a kid — sometimes sneaking in — and came to love paintings like Bonnard’s “Before Dinner,” Hopper’s “From Williamsburg Bridge” and Bertold Löffler’s “Youth Playing the Pipes of Pan.”

From New York Times

In the hands of Ensemble Musikfabrik’s players — Marco Blaauw, Florentin Ginot, Benjamin Kobler and Ulrich Löffler — each twist registers as delightful, if in a muted way.

From New York Times

But the reporter who had written that investigation, Juliane Löffler, had the lead byline on an article published Monday in the magazine Der Spiegel, which first broke the news this spring of the investigation into Mr. Reichelt.

From New York Times

This year, Juliane Löffler, a reporter at the German publisher Ippen, along with three other members of Ippen’s investigative team, worked on an investigation of Mr. Reichelt’s conduct in the hope of publishing an article with more details on what had taken place at Bild.

From New York Times

In the course of reporting, Ms. Löffler and her colleagues gained access to some of the same documents that I reviewed in recent weeks, as the Ippen article was nearing its publication date.

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