The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Haffkine, Waldemar Mordecal Wolff
Haffkine, Waldemar Mordecal Wolff, C.I.E. (1897), Bactriologist to Government of India, Calcutta; s. of late Aaron Haffkine of Odessa; b. Odessa, 1860; educ: Classical College, Cerdiansk (south Russia), and Odessa University; for sometime engaged in research work at the Odessa Zoological Museum, 1883-88; Assistant Professor of Physiology, General Medical School, Switzerland, 1888-89; Assistant to Pasteur, Paris, 1889-93; Bactriological research duty, India, since 1893; member, Society of Naturalists of Nova Rossia, Odessa; Societe de Zoologie de France, Paris; Honorary Member, Microscopic Society, Calcutta: Member of Council, Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, London; Honorary Member, Calcutta Medical Club. Publications: Articles on General Microbiology, on plague, and on Cholera. Recreations: Riding; Address: Biological Laboratory Calcutta, India. Clubs: Byculla, Bombay; United Service, Calcutta.