Born in Trumansburg, New York, Hermann Biggs was educated at Cornell University and went on to become one of the world’s pioneers in bacteriology. As the first and longest-serving New York State Health Commissioner, Biggs established standards still followed by the New York Department of Health. Throughout his career Biggs was a professor at what is now New York University School of Medicine. A colleague of Louis Pasteur in France and Robert Koch in Germany, Hermann Biggs would later be knighted by King Alfonso XIII, of Spain for his contributions to preventative medicine.
Born in Trumansburg, New York, Hermann Biggs was educated at Cornell University and went on to become one of the world’s pioneers in bacteriology. As the first and longest-serving New York State Health Commissioner, Biggs established standards still followed by the New York Department of Health. Throughout his career Biggs was a professor at what is now New York University School of Medicine. A colleague of Louis Pasteur in France and Robert Koch in Germany, Hermann Biggs would later be knighted by King Alfonso XIII, of Spain for his contributions to preventative medicine.
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