Eugen Fraenkel

Eugen Fraenkel (born 28 September 1853 in Neustadt i. OS, now Prudnik, Poland; died in Hamburg, Germany on 20 December 1925) was a German bacteriologist. Eugen Fraenkel worked as pathologist and bacteriologist researcher at the Eppendorf Hospital (Eppendorfer Krankenhaus) where he discovered the gas gangrene bacillus (Bacillus fraenkeli, later renamed Clostridium perfringens). He served in the German military during World War I.

Eugen Fraenkel

Eugen Fraenkel (born 28 September 1853 in Neustadt i. OS, now Prudnik, Poland; died in Hamburg, Germany on 20 December 1925) was a German bacteriologist. Eugen Fraenkel worked as pathologist and bacteriologist researcher at the Eppendorf Hospital (Eppendorfer Krankenhaus) where he discovered the gas gangrene bacillus (Bacillus fraenkeli, later renamed Clostridium perfringens). He served in the German military during World War I.