Gustav von Bergmann

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Franz August Richard Gustav von Bergmann (born December 24, 1878 in Würzburg , † September 16, 1955 in Munich ) was a German internist .

family

Gustav von Bergmann came from a Baltic family and was the son of surgeon Ernst von Bergmann (1836–1907) and his second wife Pauline Asbrand called von Porbeck (1842–1917), a daughter of August von Asbrand-Porbeck, the Baden governor .

Bergmann married Auguste Verwer (born March 26, 1882 in Bendorf am Rhein ; † May 8, 1923 in Frankfurt am Main ) on July 26, 1904 in Bonn , the daughter of the factory director Friedrich Verwer and Auguste Wippermann . The second son from this marriage was the co-founder and long-time curator of the FU Berlin Friedrich (Fritz) von Bergmann (1907–1982).

His second marriage was on June 28, 1924 in Frankfurt (Main) Emilia Simokat (born August 22, 1885 in Bonn ; † January 27, 1972 in Düsseldorf ).

Life

Bergmann studied medicine in Berlin, Munich, Bonn, and Strasbourg , where he received his doctorate in 1903. In 1906 Bergmann worked for Paul Ehrlich in Frankfurt am Main. In the same year he was there with the serologists Hans Sachs and in Paris with Fernand Widal . Until 1912 he then worked in the II. Medical Clinic in Berlin under Friedrich Kraus (1858-1936), where he qualified as a professor in 1908. In 1916 he became professor for internal medicine in Marburg and in 1920 in Frankfurt am Main ; from 1927 he was a professor at the Charité in Berlin . In 1932 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy . As vice dean at the Charité in Berlin in 1933, von Bergmann “implemented without discussion in the faculty that all Jews were released in 1933.” In 1939 he worked on the DFG research project to investigate the possibilities of increasing physical activity in a lack of oxygen . In 1942 he was appointed a member of the Scientific Senate of Army Medical Services by Adolf Hitler . In addition, belonged to the advisory board of the German Society for Constitutional Research . In 1944 he became a member of the advisory board of Karl Brandt , the coordinator of medical research and head of the health system, who was sentenced to death as the main culprit in the Nuremberg medical trial in the post-war period .

From 1946 to 1953 Gustav von Bergmann taught in Munich and was director of the 2nd Medical University Clinic until 1953. In 1950 he was chairman of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors .

Bergmann did research on gastric ulcer (peptic ulcer), high blood pressure (hypertension) and the autonomic nervous system .

In 1917 he stood by Emil von Behring on his last night before his death.

Together with various colleagues, Bergmann published the monumental 18-volume manual of normal and pathological physiology , which was published in 25 individual volumes , and at the same time the second edition of the eleven-volume manual of internal medicine (1925–1931), which he was responsible for the third edition grew to 16 volumes and the fourth after the Second World War to 18 volumes.

As a professor of internal medicine in Marburg, Frankfurt, Berlin and Munich, Gustav von Bergmann gave new impulses to medical thinking far beyond his area of ​​expertise by creating the foundations of psychosomatics with his “functional pathology” . The "functional pathology" is based on the psychosomatic-holistic idea that at the beginning of an illness it is not the damaged structure that stands, but the disturbed function. Gustav von Bergmann is therefore one of the fathers of psychosomatic medicine. Bergmann himself saw Gerhardt Katsch , one of the co-founders of diabetology in Germany, as his most important student .

Honors

Fonts

  • 1922 soul and body in internal medicine. Frankfurt am Main
  • 1932 Functional Pathology. Springer, Berlin; 2nd edition 1936
  • 1947 New thinking in medicine. Piper, Munich
  • as editors with Walter Frey and Herbert Schwiegk : Leo Mohr, Rudolf Staehelin (founder): Handbook of internal medicine. (Springer, Berlin 1951) 4th edition. Volume I, 1 - IX, 3. Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1952–1960.
  • 1953 review. Events and experiences on my life stage. The great doctor's memoir. Kindler and Schiermeyer, Munich

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The DGIM in the time of National Socialism - exhibition opens with the Central Council of Jews . ( Memento of May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) DGIM press release of April 19, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition. Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 41.
  3. ↑ Helmut Siefert : Gustav von Bergmann , in: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the 20th century . 1st edition. CH Beck, Munich 1995, pp. 54 + 55. Medical glossary. From antiquity to the present . 2nd edition 2001, pp. 40 + 41; 3. Edition. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin / New York 2006, pp. 41 + 42. doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .
  4. ↑ Biographical sketch I. In: Günter Ewert, Ralf Ewert: Gerhardt Katsch. Diary entries 1914 and 1949. Biographical sketches. Greifswald 2008, p. 18
  5. ↑ Member entry of Gustav von Bergmann at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 11, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Bergmann, Gustav von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bergmann, Franz August Richard Gustav von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1955
Place of death Munich