Kristaps Helmanis

Kristaps Helmanis (German: Christopher Hellmann, Russian: Христофор Иванович Гельман; 3 June 1848 – 2 March 1892) was a Latvian vaccinologist and microbiologist.

Then Helmanis relocated to the capital of Russian Empire, St. Petersburg, where he started to work as a veterinary of the guard cavalry regiment.

At the same time Robert Koch at the Tenth International Medical Congress held 1890 in Berlin unexpectedly introduced a cure for tuberculosis, which he called tuberculin.

In 1890 Kristaps Helmanis left the army service and joined newly founded Institute of Experimental Medicine in St. Petersburg as the head of the division of epizootology.

[1] Unfortunately several of Helmanis’ collaborators and colleagues Alfrēds Bertušs (1849—1890), Roberts Vāgners (1861—1890) and Oto Kalniņš (1856—1891) became infected and died from this disease.