{{Short description|Swiss biologist (1870–1943)}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Arnold C. Klebs | image = Arnold Klebs.jpg | image_size = 230 px | caption = | birth_date = {{birth-date|March 17, 1870}} | birth_place = Bern, Switzerland | death_date = {{Death-date and age|March 6, 1943|March 17, 1870}} | death_place = Nyon, Switzerland | field = Microbiology | work_institutions = {{ubl|Johns Hopkins University|National Tuberculosis Institute}} | alma_mater = University of Basel | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = Work with ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | prizes = | religion = | footnotes = }}
'''Arnold C. Klebs''' (March 17, 1870 – March 6, 1943) was a Swiss physician who specialized in the study of tuberculosis. Born in Bern, Switzerland, Arnold Klebs, the son of renowned bacteriologist Edwin Klebs, was raised in the presence of an extensive array of scientists, artists, and historians.<ref name="Baumgartner">{{cite journal |last=Baumgartner, M.D. |first=Leona |date=January 1944 |title=Arnold Klebs as Humanistic Scholar |journal=Bulletin of the Medical Library Association |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=85–95 |pmid=16016634 |pmc=194300 }}</ref> In his teenage years, Klebs was one of Switzerland's pioneer bicycle racers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cyclingranking.com/rider/100431/arnold-carl-klebs|title=Arnold Carl Klebs' Palmares at CyclingRanking.com|publisher=CyclingRanking.com}}</ref>
Klebs received a medical degree from the University of Basel in 1896, then moved to the United States to practice medicine. Klebs worked with William Osler at Johns Hopkins University for a year after arriving in the U.S. and was a contemporary of William H. Welch. Following his work with Osler, he worked as a sanatorium director and tuberculosis specialist in Citronelle, Alabama and Chicago, Illinois.<ref name="Baumgartner"/> Given his long experience with the ailment, Klebs was named one of the first directors of the National Tuberculosis Institute.<ref name="Kanpolat">{{cite book |last=van Alphen |first=H. August |editor=Yücel Kanpolat |title=Research and Publishing in Neurosurgery |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l2AIvSB2ukEC&pg=PA30 |year=2002 |publisher=Springer |isbn=3-211-83821-X |pages=130–131}}</ref>
In 1910, he returned to his native Switzerland and settled in a villa on Lake Geneva.<ref name="Baumgartner"/> In 1939, Klebs donated his collection of books to Harvey Cushing for its inclusion in what would become the Yale University's Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, where they were organized and curated by Madeline Stanton.<ref>{{cite book |last=Anonymous |title=The making of a library: Extracts from letters 1934–1941 Harvey Cushing, Arnold C Klebs, John Fulton. |year=1959 |publisher=Yale University |location=New Haven, Connecticut }}</ref><ref>Wilson, LG (July 1981). "Obituaries: Madeline Earle Stanton". ''Bulletin of the Medical Library Association''. 69(3): 357–358 – via NCBI.</ref> These included incunabula, plague tracts, herbals, books and pamphlets on tuberculosis, and books on inoculation and vaccination.<ref>{{cite web |title=Founders and Early Benefactors: Arnold Klebs |work=Harvey Cushing/John Jay Whitney Medical Library |url=http://historical.medicine.yale.edu/us/founders/klebs |access-date=2007-11-17 }}</ref> Klebs' library included 3000 texts related to tuberculosis alone.<ref name="Kanpolat"/>
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==External links== {{Commons category|Arnold Klebs}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Arnold C. Klebs}} *[http://historical.medicine.yale.edu/us/founders/klebs Arnold Carl Klebs]. Harvey Cushing/John Jay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University. *{{HDS|14433}}
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