PASTEUR'S BIOGRAPHY

A reprint of original Elie Metchnikoff's chapter VII “Pasteur's biography” from his “Founders of Modern Medicine: Pasteur, Lister, Koch. Nauchnoe Slovo Publishers: Moscow, 1915: 65-79, re-published at Moscow and Leningrad in 1946 by Soviet Academy of Sciences. The text describes life and creative work of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) since his early youth at school until his death at the position of Pasteur Institute director. Metchnikoff emphasizes hardships and calamities of Pasteur's life as well as his enormous creative energy and industrious nature of this person on his way from Chemistry of crystals to Bacteriology and to foundation of modern Medicine. Author also reflects about origins and specifics of Pasteur's genius (3 figs, bibliography: 1 ref.).

bacteriology, Silkworm disease, fermentation, vaccines, history of medicine, history of chemistry, optical isomers, brewing