Ernst Grawitz

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Ernst Grawitz

Ernst Grawitz (born March 18, 1860 in Mittelhagen , Greifenberg district , † July 11, 1911 in Berlin ) was a German internist and hematologist . He became known in particular through the introduction of venipuncture for diagnostic blood collection .

Life

Ernst Grawitz was born in 1860 as the son of the landowner Wilhelm Grawitz and his wife Agnes, nee. Fischer, born in Western Pomerania . His older brother was the future pathologist Paul Grawitz (1850-1932).

He studied medicine in Berlin as a pupil of the Friedrich Wilhelm Institute and received his doctorate in 1882. Grawitz was initially an active military doctor, most recently with the rank of senior staff doctor . From 1886 to 1889 he was a prosector at the Berlin Auguste Viktoria Hospital and from 1890 to 1896 assistant at the Charité.

In 1893 Grawitz was appointed private lecturer for internal medicine at the Berlin Friedrich Wilhelms University and in April 1897 professor. In the same year he became chief physician at the Charlottenburg Municipal Hospital and later at the Charlottenburg-Westend Hospital .

A son of Grawitz was the later " Reichsarzt SS "  Ernst-Robert Grawitz (1899–1945).

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Grawitz became known through numerous writings on hematology. In 1902 he introduced venipuncture for diagnostic blood collection: previously only capillary blood had been used for diagnostic purposes.

At the side of Artur Pappenheim (1870-1916) and Hans Hirschfeld (1873-1944), he was a founder of the Berlin Hematological Society in 1908 , which became the first German specialist society in the field of hematology. In 1911 Grawitz died at the age of 51 at a society meeting.

Fonts

  • About tuberculosis in the army (1889)
  • Clinical-experimental blood tests (1892 to 1896)
  • Clinical Pathology of Blood (1896)

literature

  • Julius Pagel : Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin and Vienna 1901, Sp. 629 ( online ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ William Katner:  Grawitz, Paul Albert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 13 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Ernst Grawitz: Clinical pathology of the blood, together with a methodology of blood tests and special pathology and therapy of blood diseases. Enslin, Berlin 1902.
  3. ^ Wolfram Fischer (editor): Exodus of sciences from Berlin . de Gruyter, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-110-13945-6 , p. 555 ( digitized version )

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personal data
SURNAME Grawitz, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Mittelhagen , Greifenberg district , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1911
Place of death Berlin