Ernst Grawitz (hematologist)

Ernst Grawitz ( born March 18, 1860 in Mittelhagen, Greifenberg county; † July 11, 1911 in Berlin) was a German internist and hematologist. He was known in particular by the introduction of venipuncture for diagnostic blood collection.

Life

Ernst Grawitz was born in 1860, son of the landowner William and his wife Agnes Grawitz, nee Fischer, in Pomerania. His older brother was the future pathologist Paul Grawitz ( 1850-1932 ).

He studied medicine in Berlin as a pupil of Friedrich Wilhelm Institute and received his doctorate in 1882. Grawitz was initially active military doctor, most recently with the rank of senior staff physician. From 1886 to 1889 he was prosector at the Berlin Auguste -Viktoria Hospital, and from 1890 to 1896 assistant at the Charité.

1893 Grawitz was appointed lecturer in internal medicine at Berlin's Friedrich- Wilhelms University in April 1897 Professor. In the same year he became chief physician at the City Hospital Charlottenburg, Charlottenburg -Westend later at the hospital.

A son of Grawitz was the later "Reich SS doctor " Ernst- Robert Grawitz ( 1899-1945 ).

Work

Grawitz was known by numerous writings on hematology. In 1902 he led a venipuncture for diagnostic blood sampling: previously only capillary blood was used for diagnosis.

On the side of Artur Pappenheim (1870-1916) and Hans Hirschfeld (1873-1944), he was a founder in 1908 of the Berlin Hematological Society, which became the first German professional society in the field of hematology. 1911 died Grawitz 51 -year-old at a meeting of the Company.

Writings

• About the tuberculosis in the Army (1889 )
• Clinical and experimental blood tests ( 1892-1896 )
• Clinical pathology of the blood ( 1896)