Where did Robert Koch receive his medical training?

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German bacteriologist Robert Koch attended the University of Göttingen, where he studied medicine, graduating in 1866. He then became a physician in various provincial towns. After serving briefly as a field surgeon during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, he became district surgeon in Wollstein, Germany, where he built a small laboratory.