Max Löhlein

Born in Berlin in 1877 and dying in Marburg in 1921, Max Hermann Friedrich Löhlein was a German physician, pathologist, and bacteriologist. Reference records from Deutsche Biographie and the Marburg professor catalog identify him as a medical scholar who worked in pathology and anatomy and later held a professorship in Marburg.

He is especially remembered today for Die krankheiterregenden Bakterien, a book that presented the causes, treatment, and prevention of bacterial infectious diseases in language meant to be accessible beyond a narrow specialist audience. That makes his work interesting not only as medical history, but also as an example of how scientists of his era tried to bring fast-moving discoveries to ordinary readers.

Available catalog records also connect him with more specialized medical research, including work on kidney disease and nephritis. Although detailed biographical information appears limited online, the sources consistently show a writer and teacher working at the intersection of laboratory science, medicine, and public explanation in the years before his early death.