Franz Ferdinand Schulze

Franz Ferdinand Schulze (17 January 1815 – 14 April 1873) was a German professor of chemistry and microbiology who taught at the Royal Prussian State Agricultural Academy in Eldena and later at Rostock.

He received a doctorate with a dissertation on "De planariarum vivendi ratione et structura penitiore" following which he worked in Eilhard Mitscherlich's laboratory.

He became a teacher of chemistry at the newly founded Agricultural Academy in Eldena in 1835 and habilitated in 1837 at the University of Greifswald.

After cholera struck Rostock in 1866, he conducted studies on airborne micro-organisms, noting their possible role in putrefaction.

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