Wilhelm von Drigalski
Wilhelm von Drigalski was a German bacteriologist. Von Drigalski was awarded a doctor of medicine degree at the University of Berlin in 1895. As medical officer he worked at the Charité hospital under the supervision of Robert Koch. He married the writer Liesbet Dill, daughter of the Dudweiler estate and brewery owner Friedrich Wilhelm Dill and Elisabeth Dill née Bottler, in Wiesbaden on March 5, 1905, and fathered their daughter Leonore and son Wolfgang von Drigalski.