EBERTH, KARL JOSEPH (1835-1926), bacteriologist, was born in Wiirzburg where he studied under Kolliker and Vir chow (qq.v.). He was called in 1874 to Zurich, and in 1881 to Halle. He made numerous important contributions to bacteriology and pathology, and is still commemorated in the so-called "Eberth's bacillus," the organic cause of typhoid fever, which was first distinguished by him in 1880.
See R. Benecke's biography in Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift, 1915, LII., 1010-1012 ; works given in J. Page, Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Aerzte (Vienna) 1901.