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Jacques Jacob Bronfenbrenner (1883–1953)

An Appreciation

On August 13, 1953, Microbiology lost one of its most respected teachers and investigators. Jacques Jacob Bronfenbrenner for more than half a century devoted his life to the development and enrichment of the field of immunology.

Dr. Bronfenbrenner was born in Cherson, Russia in 1883 and graduated from the Imperial University in Odessa in 1907. He received his Ph.D. degree at Columbia University in 1912, having come to this country by way of Paris where he spent several interim years at the Pasteur Institute. From 1909 to 1913 he was associated with the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research as a fellow and then an assistant. He was director of the research and diagnostic laboratories at the Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh from 1913 to 1917, and then went to Harvard as an assistant professor of preventive medicine and hygiene. While he was at Harvard that institution awarded him a Doctor of Public Health degree.