About Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Julius Cohn (24 January 1828 – 25 June 1898) was a German biologist. He is one of the founders of modern bacteriology and microbiology. == Biography == Ferdinand Julius Cohn was born in the Jewish quarter of Breslau in the Prussian Province of Silesia (modern-day Wrocław, Poland). His father, Issak Cohn, was a successful merchant and manufacturer who for some time held the post of Austro-Hungarian consul. He was the elder brother of humorist and playwright Oskar Justinus Cohn and of historian and jurist Max Conrat. He was considered a child prodigy, and could read at the age of two. He also suffered hearing impairment from a young age. He entered the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in 1835 at the age or 6 or 7, and the University of Breslau in 1842 or 1844. There he studied botany under Heinrich Göppert and Christian Nees von Esenbeck. Cohn was refused admission to the University of Breslau's doctoral program because of his Jewish background.
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