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

Würzburg Würzburg (; Main-Franconian: ) is a city in the region of Franconia in the north of the German state of Bavaria. Würzburg is the administrative seat of the '' Regierungsbezirk'' Lower Franconia. It spans the banks of the Main River. Würzbur ...

. 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 ...

(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 Friedrich Kraus (31 May 18581 March 1936) was an Austrian internist. He was born in Bodenbach, Bohemia and died in Berlin. He is remembered for his achievements in the field of electrocardiography and his work in colloid chemistry. Academi ...

. 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

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(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

psychosomatic medicine Psychosomatic medicine is an interdisciplinary medical field exploring the relationships among social, psychological, behavioral factors on bodily processes and quality of life in humans and animals. The academic forebear of the modern field of ...

. His research involved investigations into

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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
Gustav-von-Bergmann-Medaille With Albrecht Bethe and

Gustav Georg Embden Gustav Georg Embden (10 November 1874 – 25 July 1933) was a German physiological chemist. Background Gustav Embden was a son of the Hamburg lawyer and politician George Heinrich Embden. His grandmother Charlotte Heine was a well-known salonn ...

, he was co-publisher of the multi-volume ''Handbuch der normalen und pathologischen Physiologie''. With

Rudolf Stähelin Rudolf Stähelin, surname also spelled Staehelin (28 July 1875, Basel – 26 March 1943, Basel) was a Swiss internist. He studied medicine at the Universities of Basel, Tübingen and Munich, obtaining his doctorate at Basel in 1901. He briefly ...

, 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