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

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 • Mar. 31, 2022

Ms. Löffler and her fellow reporters objected, writing in a letter to company management that “no legal or editorial reasons were given” for stopping their reporting.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2021

Photograph: Juliane Löffler for the Guardian Back home at her hotel in Chios, Pothiti rents out rooms to volunteers at a special rate, and uses her flat inside the hotel as the base for CESRT.

From The Guardian • Jun. 9, 2016

“I want to get rid of my fear,” said Hermine Löffler, a 57-year-old retired hospitality worker in Austria.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2016

Then, in the late 1890s, two Germans, Friedrich Löffler and Paul Frosch, discovered other disease-causing organisms even tinier than bacteria, called viruses.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy