Editing Theodor Escherich (section)

=== Family and education ===
Theodor Escherich was born in [[Ansbach]], as the younger son of ''Kreismedizinalrat'' (District Medical Officer) Ferdinand Escherich (1810−1888), a medical [[statistician]], and his second wife, Maria Sophie Frederike von Stromer, daughter of a Bavarian army colonel. When Theodor Escherich was five, his mother died, and five years later Ferdinand Escherich moved to [[Würzburg]] to take up his former position as ''Kreismedizinalrat'' and married his third wife. When Theodor was 12, he was sent to a boarding school run by [[Society of Jesus|Jesuits]]  in [[Feldkirch, Vorarlberg|Feldkirch]], [[Austria]] for three years. Later, he finished secondary education in Würzburg, where he attended a [[Gymnasium (school)|''Gymnasium'']] (classical language high school) and took his ''[[Abitur]]''  examination in 1876.

After a half-year military service in [[Strasbourg]],  Escherich took up his studies of medicine at the [[University of Würzburg]] in the winter term of 1876. Later, he attended the universities of [[Kiel]] and [[Berlin]], and returned to Würzburg before passing his  medical examination with excellence in December 1881.