David Hendricks Bergey

David Hendricks Bergey
Born(1860-12-27)December 27, 1860
Skippack, Pennsylvania
DiedSeptember 5, 1937(1937-09-05) (aged 76)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
Scientific career
FieldsBacteriology
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania

David Hendricks Bergey (1860-1937) was an American bacteriologist.

He studied at University of Pennsylvania, where he obtained his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Medicine degrees in 1884. He practiced medicine in North Wales, Pennsylvania, until 1893. He then joined the university's hygiene laboratory, where he taught hygiene and bacteriology. He led the laboratory from 1929 until his retirement in 1932. During WW I he was on academic leave of absence from 1917 to 1919, when he served in the United States Army Medical Reserve Corps as chief of the laboratory staff at Fort Oglethorpe.[1]

His Principles of Hygiene was first published in 1901 and went through seven editions.[2][3] He was chairman of the Editorial Board for the first edition of Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, published in 1923. The Determinative Manual has subsequently been published in a further eight editions, and Bergey's Manual Trust is currently publishing the second edition of Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology.[4] The Trust is currently based at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, USA.[5]

Bergey was elected in 1903 a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[6]

He was the first doctor to isolate the bacterium Actinomyces from a human being, in 1907.

The standard author abbreviation Bergey is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[7]
  1. ^ Bucher, Carl J.; Morton, Harry E. (1937). "David Hendricks Bergey". Science. 86 (2232): 320–321. Bibcode:1937Sci....86..320B. doi:10.1126/science.86.2232.320. p. 321
  2. ^ Breed, Robert S. (1938). "David Hendricks Bergey 1860-1937". Journal of Bacteriology. 35 (4): i2-345. doi:10.1128/jb.35.4.i2-345.1938. PMC 545285. PMID 16560118.
  3. ^ Bergey, David Hendricks (1914). The Principles of Hygiene (5th ed.).
  4. ^ Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. By David R. Boone, Richard W. Castenholz, Don J. Brenner, George M. Garrity, Noel R. Krieg, James T. Staley. Springer, 2005. 2 vols. (ISBN 9780387241456)
  5. ^ Bergey's Manual Trust.
  6. ^ "Historic Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science.
  7. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Bergey.