![Robert Koch, as his wife saw him Robert Koch, as his wife saw him](https://www.wissenschaft.de/wp-content/uploads/d/a/dam0324akt02_64A9DF09-6AC6-40D0-9A08-995EC923EDEE.jpg)
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Robert Koch was one of Germany's most outstanding scientists. The memoirs of his second wife reveal an unknown side of the researcher.
“I also saw this lonely Robert Koch in his laboratory, bending over the painful bed of poor, defenseless animals cut open alive, suffering without a name, in the silent night in theirs