"for his discovery of the Spiroptera carcinoma."
JOHANNES ANDREAS GRIB FIBIGER WAS BORN IN SILKEBORG, Denmark, on April 23, 1867. He finished his medical studies in 1890. From 1891 to 1894, after hospital work and some further study with Koch and Behring, he was assistant to C J. Salmonsen in the bacteriology laboratory of the University of Copenhagen. Then, until 1897, he was associated with the Hospital for Contagious Diseases in Copenhagen, meanwhile (1895) obtaining his doctoral degree with a thesis on the bacteriology of diphtheria. After 1897 he worked at the Institute of Pathological Anatomy of the University and in the army bacteriological laboratory. In 1900 he was named professor of pathological anatomy and head of the Institute. He carried out a large number of official commissions and took part in the direction of numerous institutes and societies. He was co-editor, as well as one of the founders, of Acta Pathologica et Microbiologica Scandinavica; he was also co-editor of Zieglers Beitrage. Fibiger died on January 30, 1928, in Copenhagen, after a short illness.