Gustav von Bergmann

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Gustav von Bergmann
Born24 December 1878
Internist

Gustav von Bergmann (24 December 1878 – 16 September 1955) was a German

internist born in Würzburg. He was the son of renowned surgeon Ernst von Bergmann
(1836–1907).

Education

In 1903 he received his doctorate at

Munich
(from 1946).

Career

He was a proponent of "functional

gastro-intestinal ulcers, hypertension and studies of the autonomic nervous system. From 1994 to 2010, the Gustav-von-Bergmann-Medaille was the highest honor awarded by the German Society of Internal Medicine.[1]

With

Gustav Georg Embden, he was co-publisher of the multi-volume Handbuch der normalen und pathologischen Physiologie. With Rudolf Stähelin, he published the second edition of Handbuch der inneren Medizin.[2]
Other noted works of his include:

  • Das vegetative Nervensystem und seine Störungen (The autonomic nervous system and its disorders). 1926.
  • Funktionelle Pathologie (Functional pathology), 1932.
  • Neues Denken in der Medizin (New reasoning in medicine), 1947.

He attended to physiologist Emil von Behring during the night prior to Behring's death of a pulmonary inflammation on March 31, 1917.[2]

References

  1. ^ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin Gustav-von-Bergmann-Medaille
  2. ^
    Who Named It