Edgar von Gierke
Edgar Otto Konrad von Gierke ( born February 9, 1877 in Breslau, † October 21, 1945 in Karlsruhe, born as Edgar Gierke ) was a German pathologist.
Life
The son of the jurist Otto von Gierke studied at the Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin medicine. In Heidelberg he became a member of the fraternity Allemannia like his father, Otto (1841-1921) and his brothers Julius (1875-1960) and Otto von Gierke (1883-1918), the son of the Berlin Mayor Martin Kirschner and brother of the surgeon Martin Kirschner. After graduating in the winter semester 1899/1900, he spent two years in Heidelberg. In 1901 he received his doctorate with the work over the iron content of calcified tissues under normal and pathological conditions. In May 1903 he became a Research Associate position at the Pathological Institute in Freiburg and in 1904 was habilitated ( The glycogen in the morphology of cell metabolism ). As of October 1907, Gierke was employed at the Pathological Institute in Berlin, in 1908 he went to Karlsruhe, where he was employed as a prosector at the City Hospital and at the same time worked as a bacteriologist at the TH Karlsruhe. At this university he was appointed associate professor in 1911. During the First World War was von Gierke military doctor. In 1938 he was prematurely retired, took over from 1939 to 1944 again the leadership of the Pathological- Bacteriological Institute at the Technical University of Karlsruhe, as his successor had been called up for military service.
From Gierke was married from 1912 with Julie Brown, the couple had four children. " From Gierke " was from 1911 the name of the pathologist, because in that year, his father was raised on his 70th birthday in the hereditary nobility. Since 1968, carries a street in Karlsruhe its name.
Services
From Gierke's main area of interest was the glycogen metabolism. He described in 1929 the first time the glycogen storage disease type Ia, which is also referred to as "von Gierke 's disease ."
Writings (selection )
- Handbook of pathological anatomy. Thieme, Leipzig 1911. (12th Edition 1933).
- Floor plan of the section technique. Speyer & Kaerner, Freiburg 1912. ( 6th edition 1920)
- Hepato - nephromegalia glycogenica. In: Contributions to the pathological anatomy and general pathology. Jena, 1929, 82: 497-513.