Records of Bernhard Schmidt on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Bernhard Schmidt in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Bernhard Schmidt and the Schmidt Family History

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Schmidt Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Schmidt family tree.

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Some Famous People called Bernhard Schmidt

Bernhard Schmidt (microbiologist)

Bernhard Schmidt (born 20 May 1906 in Magdeburg, died 23 September 2003 in Esslingen am Neckar) was a German microbiologist. He was Professor and Director of the Institute for Infection Control and Medical Microbiology at the Free University of Berlin.

Schmidt studied chemistry and medicine at the University of Munich, and graduated as a physician and earned a doctoral degree in 1932. He undertook residency training in infection control and bacteriology, and earned his Habilitation at the University of Göttingen in 1939. He worked at the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Infection Control at the Goethe University Frankfurt from 1946, and became an adjunct full professor (Außerplanmäßiger Professor) at the Goethe University Frankfurt in 1948.

In 1953 he became Professor Ordinarius of Infection Control and Director of the Institute for Infection Control and Medical Microbiology at the Free University of Berlin. He was additionally director of the Medizinaluntersuchungsamt in Berlin-Wedding. He became Professor Emeritus in 1974.

Source: Bernhard Schmidt (microbiologist), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Schmidt

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