Edgar von Gierke

Edgar Otto Konrad von Gierke , before 1911 Edgar Gierke (born February 9, 1877 in Breslau ; † October 21, 1945 in Karlsruhe ; born Edgar Gierke) was a German pathologist and bacteriologist .

Life

The son of the lawyer Otto von Gierke studied medicine at the universities of Heidelberg , Breslau and Berlin . In Heidelberg he became a member of the Allemannia fraternity like his father Otto (1841-1921) and his brothers Julius (1875-1960) and Otto von Gierke (1883-1918), the son-in-law of the Berlin Mayor Martin Kirschner and brother-in-law of the surgeon Martin Kirschner . After graduating in the winter semester of 1899/1900, he worked in Heidelberg for two years. In 1901, he was there with the work over the iron content of calcified tissues under normal and pathological conditions doctorate . In May 1903 he took up an assistant position at the Pathological Institute in Freiburg i. Br. And was habilitated in 1904 (The Glycogen in the Morphology of Cell Metabolism). From 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 municipal hospital and at the same time worked as a bacteriologist at the TH Karlsruhe . In 1911 he was appointed associate professor at this university. Von Gierke was a military doctor during the First World War . In 1938 he was prematurely retired and from 1939 to 1944 he again took over the management of the Pathological-Bacteriological Institute at the TH Karlsruhe, as his successor had been called up for military service.

Von Gierke was married to Julie Braun from 1912 and the couple had four children. From 1911 the name of the pathologist was "von Gierke", since his father was raised to hereditary nobility on his 70th birthday in that year . A street in Karlsruhe has been named after him since 1968.

Services

Von Gierke's main area of interest was glycogen metabolism . In 1929 he first described glycogenosis type Ia, which is also known as " Von Gierke's disease ".

Fonts (selection)

Paperback of Pathological Anatomy. Thieme, Leipzig 1911. (12th edition 1933).
Floor plan of the section technology. Speyer & Kaerner, Freiburg 1912. (6th edition 1920)
Hepato-Nephromegalia glykogenica (glycogen storage disease of the liver and kidneys). In: Contributions to pathological anatomy and general pathology. Volume 82, (Jena) 1929, pp. 497-513.

literature

Manfred Stürzbecher : Gierke, Edgar Otto Konrad von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 373 ( digitized version ).
I. Fischer (Ed.): Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years: at the same time: continuation of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin, Vienna 1932–1933, 2 vol.
Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach : Gierke, Edgar OC von. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 493.

Web links

Literature by and about Edgar von Gierke in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Wolf-Diedrich Reinbach (ed.): Golden book of the fraternity Allemannia zu Heidelberg . Festschrift Part I for the 150th anniversary of the Allemannia fraternity in Heidelberg. Pp. 31–34 (Otto v. G. sen.), Pp. 328–330 (Julius v. G.), pp. 334–335 (Edgar v. G.) and p. 402–403 (Otto v. G.) G. jun.). Heidelberg 2006.

personal data
SURNAME	Gierke, Edgar von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gierke, Edgar Otto Konrad von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 9, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH	October 21, 1945
Place of death	Karlsruhe

[1] Wolf-Diedrich Reinbach (ed.): Golden book of the fraternity Allemannia zu Heidelberg . Festschrift Part I for the 150th anniversary of the Allemannia fraternity in Heidelberg. Pp. 31–34 (Otto v. G. sen.), Pp. 328–330 (Julius v. G.), pp. 334–335 (Edgar v. G.) and p. 402–403 (Otto v. G.) G. jun.). Heidelberg 2006.