Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt

Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt ( born May 5, 1833 in Speyer, † July 22, 1902 in Gamburg ) was a German internist and director of the Charité.

Life

Gerhardt's father was the school professor Abraham Gerhardt (1796-1872), son of the brewer Clemens; his mother was born in 1813 Clementine, daughter of Ips typographus Jakob Christian Kolb.

He studied medicine at the University of Würzburg and in 1856 received his doctorate. Subsequently he was assistant to Heinrich von Bamberg and Franz von Rinecker in Würzburg, working under Wilhelm Griesinger in Tübingen. In 1885 he was succeeded Friedrich Theodor Frerichs in Berlin and founded the Second Medical Clinic of the Charité. 1888/89 he served as rector of the university. From Frerichs, he took Paul Ehrlich as an assistant, who felt, however, be restricted under Gerhardt in his research freedom not understand him, and finally in 1888 reported sick. Gerhardt's son Dietrich was also a well-known physician.

Gerhardt wrote textbooks such as the Handbook of childhood diseases and is considered one of the founders of Pediatrics. To the introduction and development of the physical and chemical diagnostics he earned lasting merits. In 1865, he led the ferric chloride test as a quantitative detection of acetoacetic acid in the urine, the so-called Gerhard Czech sample. The also named after him Gerhard Czech sound change refers to the change of the percussion sound over caverns of the lung. He was instrumental in the spread of laryngoscopy and founded the doctrine of the laryngeal paralysis. In 1887, he diagnosed the German Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm larynx cancer. He also joined in the fight against tuberculosis.

Gerhardt was married to Wanda (1841-1903), daughter of the government of Gustav von Barby. The couple had seven children, are known including Ulrich and Dietrich. His daughter married Clema 1903 the British diplomat Eyre Crowe.

Publications

  • Textbook of paediatrics. Tübingen, 1861.
  • Studies and observations of vocal cord paralysis. Virchow's Archives of pathological anatomy and physiology and clinical medicine, Berlin, 1863, 27: 68-69, 296-321
  • Textbook of auscultation and percussion. Tübingen, 1876
  • Handbook of Homeopathy: with use of foreign and own experiences to the latest views of science. - 4th Edition - Leipzig: Schwabe, 1886 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf.
  • About erythromelalgia. Berliner clinical Wochenschrift, 1892; 29: 1125
  • Manual of Children's Diseases. Tübingen, H. Laupp.
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