Edwin Goldmann

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Edwin Goldmann
Goldmann's grave in the main cemetery in Freiburg im Breisgau

Edwin Ellen Goldmann (born November 12, 1862 in Burgersdorp / South Africa ; † August 11, 1913 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German surgeon .

Career

Edwin Goldmann went to school at the Albert Academy in his native Burgersdorp. He then studied medicine in London . He then attended the universities of Wroclaw and Freiburg . In 1888 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . He got his first job with Karl Weigert in Frankfurt . He stayed in Frankfurt for six months and then went to Freiburg to see Eugen Baumann , where he devoted himself to physiological and chemical studies. In his work he dealt with cystine , sulfur-containing compounds in urine and iodothyrin . His habilitation thesis from 1895 deals with the theory of neurons . In 1898 he became an associate professor and later a full honorary professor . He headed the surgical department of the Deaconess Hospital in Freiburg. There he mainly worked in the field of cancer research .

Goldmann made a significant contribution to the discovery of the blood-brain barrier . In 1913 he injected trypan blue , a water-soluble azo dye synthesized by Paul Ehrlich for the first time in 1904 , directly into the cerebrospinal fluid ( liquor cerebrospinalis ) of dogs . The entire central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) was stained, but no other organ.

Goldmann died in Freiburg in 1913 as a result of cancer.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ I. Singer and FT Haneman: Goldmann, Edwin Ellen In: JewishEncyclopedia accessed on January 13, 2009
  2. ↑ JOURNAL OF GERMAN-JEWISH GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH 31, 2007, p. 23.
  3. ^ Leopoldina (1913) Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists E. Blochmann & Sohn, Issue 49. (text in the public domain without copyright)
  4. ↑ EE Goldmann: vital staining on the central nervous system. In: Abh. Preuss. Akd. Knowledge Phys. - Math. Kl. I 1, 1913, pp. 1-13.

literature

  • DB Tower: Cerebral circulation revisited: An historical essay. In: Neurochemical Research 16, 1991, pp. 1085-1097
personal data
SURNAME Goldmann, Edwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goldmann, Edwin Ellen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and medical researcher
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgersdorp , South Africa
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1913
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau