David Hendricks Bergey | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1860-12-27)December 27, 1860 |
| Died | September 5, 1937(1937-09-05) (aged 76) |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Bacteriology |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
David Hendricks Bergey (1860-1937) was an Americanbacteriologist.
He studied atUniversity of Pennsylvania, where he obtained hisBachelor of Science andDoctor of Medicine degrees in 1884. He practicedmedicine inNorth Wales, Pennsylvania, until 1893. He then joined the university'shygiene laboratory, where he taught hygiene and bacteriology. He led the laboratory from 1929 until his retirement in 1932. During WW I he was on academic leave of absence from 1917 to 1919, when he served in the United States Army Medical Reserve Corps as chief of the laboratory staff atFort Oglethorpe.[1]
HisPrinciples of Hygiene was first published in 1901 and went through seven editions.[2][3] He was chairman of the Editorial Board for the first edition ofBergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, published in 1923. The Determinative Manual has subsequently been published in a further eight editions, and Bergey's Manual Trust is currently publishing the second edition ofBergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology.[4] The Trust is currently based at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, USA.[5]
Bergey was elected in 1903 a fellow of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science.[6]
He was the first doctor to isolate the bacteriumActinomyces from a human being, in 1907.
