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

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. He was the son of renowned surgeon

Ernst von Bergmann Ernst Gustav Benjamin von Bergmann (16 December 1836 – 25 March 1907) was a Baltic German surgeon. He was the first physician to introduce heat sterilisation of surgical instruments and is known as a pioneer of aseptic surgery. Biography Bo ...

(1836–1907).

Education

In 1903 he received his doctorate at Strasbourg, and afterwards worked at the second medical hospital in

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under Friedrich Kraus. In 1916 he became a full professor of internal medicine in

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, and later a professor at

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(from 1920), the Berlin Charité (from 1927) and

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(from 1946).

Career

He was a proponent of "functional

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", and is considered to be one of the founders of

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. His research involved investigations into 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. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin
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Albrecht Bethe Albrecht Julius Theodor Bethe (25 April 1872 in Stettin – 19 October 1954 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German physiologist. He was the father of physicist Hans Bethe (1906–2005). He studied at the universities of Freiburg, Munich (under Richa ...

and 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''.''Gustav von Bergmann''

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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 Emil von Behring (; Emil Adolf von Behring), born Emil Adolf Behring (15 March 1854 – 31 March 1917), was a German physiologist who received the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the first one awarded in that field, for his discovery ...

during the night prior to Behring's death of a pulmonary inflammation on March 31, 1917.

References

1878 births 1955 deaths German internists Physicians from Würzburg People from the Kingdom of Bavaria Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin Academic staff of the University of Marburg Academic staff of Goethe University Frankfurt Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Members of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin Physicians of the Charité {{Germany-med-bio-stub