Gustav von Bergmann
Franz August Richard Gustav von Bergmann ( born December 24, 1878 in Würzburg, † September 16, 1955 in Munich) was a German internist.
Family
He came from a Baltic family and was the son of the surgeon Ernst von Bergmann (1836-1907) and his second wife Pauline Asbrand called Porbeck ( 1842-1917 ).
Bergmann married his first wife, on 26 July 1904 in Bonn Auguste Verwer ( born March 26, 1882 in Bendorf on the Rhine, † 8 May 1923 in Frankfurt am Main ), the daughter of the factory director Friedrich recovery and Auguste Wippermann. Second son of this marriage was the co-founder and long-time curator of the University of Berlin, Friedrich (Fritz) von Bergmann ( 1907-1982 ).
His second wife he married on June 28, 1924 in Frankfurt (Main) Emilia Simokat ( born August 22, 1885 in Bonn, † January 27, 1972 in Dusseldorf ).
Life
Bergmann studied in Berlin, Munich, Bonn and Strasbourg Medicine, where he received his doctorate in 1903. By 1912, he then worked in the II Medical Clinic in Berlin under Friedrich Kraus ( 1858-1936 ), in which he could habilitate 1908. In 1916, he was professor of internal medicine at Marburg and in 1920 in Frankfurt am Main; From 1927 he was professor at the Charité in Berlin. In 1932 he was elected a member of the Scholars Academy Leopoldina. In 1939 he worked at the DFG - research project with studies of the possibilities to improve performance of physical work under oxygen deficiency. In 1942 he was appointed Adolf Hitler as a member of the Scientific Division of the army medical service. In addition, a member of the Advisory Board of the German Society for Research constitution. In 1944 he was the advisory board of Karl Brandt, the coordinator of medical research and director of Public Health, who was convicted in the postwar period in the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial as the main culprit to death.
From 1946 to 1953 taught by Gustav Bergmann in Munich and was until 1953 Director of the Second Medical University Hospital.
Bergmann researched especially for stomach ulcer ( peptic ulcer ), high blood pressure ( hypertension ) and autonomic nervous system.
He stood in 1917 Emil von Behring in during his last night before his death.
With various colleagues Bergmann was from 1925 to 1932, the monumental, published in 25 individual volumes, formal 18- volume handbook of normal and pathological physiology out and at the same time the second edition of elfbändigen Handbook of Internal Medicine ( 1925-1931 ) located in, under its aegis the third edition grew to 16 volumes, and the fourth after the Second world War on 18 volumes.
As a professor of internal medicine in Marburg, Frankfurt, Berlin and Munich, Gustav von Bergmann was far beyond his area of expertise beyond the medical thinking new impetus by the fundamentals of psychosomatic created with his " functional pathology ". He is therefore considered one of the fathers of psychosomatic medicine. As his most important students Bergmann saw himself Gerhardt Katsch, one of the founders of diabetology in Germany.
Named after him Gustav von Bergmann Medal is the highest award of the German Society of Internal Medicine.