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03 February 2026

The giants of brewing history: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

The founder of microbiology | There are researchers and inventors who essentially had nothing to do with brewing, but whose works and inventions were so fundamental, so universal and so enduring that they are still valid today. And not just for brewers. Pioneers such as von Linde as well as Newcomen and Watt ushered in new eras in the history of industry, and by doing so, also made brewing history. Others, like Pasteur, gave brewers and many others a firm foothold in science. Yet the man presented here, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, preceded all of them.

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