Emil ADOLF BEHRING, born on March 15, 1854 at Hansdorf, now in Poland, was a German Physiologist who received the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicines.
Since the family could not afford to keep Emil at a University, he entered, in 1874, the well-known Army Medical College at Berlin.
This made his studies financially practicable but also carried the obligation to stay in military service for several years after he had taken his medical degree in 1878.
Behring’s most important researches were intimately bound up with the epoch-making work of Pasteur, Koch, Ehrlich, Loffer, Roux, Yersin and others, which led the foundation of our modern knowledge of the immunology of bacterial diseases, but he is himself chiefly remembered for his work on diphtheria and tuberculosis.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1901 was awarded to him for his work on serum therapy, especially its application against diphtheria, by which he has opened a new road in the domain of medical science and thereby placed in the hands of the physician a victorious weapon against illness and deaths.
Numerous distinctions were conferred upon Behring. Already in 1893 the title of Professor was conferred upon him, and two years later he became a Geheimer Medizinalrat and officer of the French Legion of Honor.
In the ensuing years followed honorary membership of Societies in Italy, Turkey and France, in 1901, the year of his Nobel Prize, he was raised to the nobility, and in 1903 he was elected to the Privy Council with the title of Excellency.
Behring died at Marburg on March 31, 1917.
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