Background
Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger was born in Silkeborg, Denmark. His father, C. E. A. Fibiger, was a local medical practitioner and his mother, Elfride Muller, was a writer. Although his father died when Johannes Fibiger was very young, Fibiger hoped to become a physician like his father. While an undergraduate at the University of Copenhagen, Fibiger became interested in bacteriology. He was awarded his bachelor's degree in 1883 and his M.D. in 1890 from the University of Copenhagen. After a period of working in hospitals and studying under Robert Koch (1843-1910) and Emil von Behring (1854-1917) in Germany, he returned to Copenhagen. From 1891-1894 he was assistant to Professor Carl Julius Salomonsen in the Department of Bacteriology of Copenhagen University. Fibiger served as an army reserve doctor at the Hospital for Infectious Diseases in Copenhagen from 1894-1897 while completing his doctoral research on the bacteriology of diphtheria. In 1895 he received his doctorate from the University of Copenhagen for a thesis on diphtheria and returned to Germany to work at the pathological institute of Johannes Orth. In 1897 Fibiger was appointed dissection assistant for the University of Copenhagen's Institute of Pathological Anatomy. In 1900 he became professor of pathology at the University of Copenhagen.
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