Gustav von Bergmann

Gustav von Bergmann (December 24, 1878 – September 16, 1955) was a German internist born in Würzburg. He was the son of renowned surgeon Ernst von Bergmann (1836-1907).

In 1903 he received his doctorate at Strasbourg, and afterwards worked at the 2nd medical hospital in Berlin under Friedrich Kraus (1858-1936). In 1916 he became a full professor of internal medicine in Marburg, and later a professor at Frankfurt am Main (from 1920), the Berlin Charité (from 1927) and Munich (from 1946).

He was a proponent of "functional pathology", and is considered to be one of the founders of psychosomatic medicine. His research involved investigations into gastro-intestinal ulcers, hypertension and studies of the autonomic nervous system. Today, the "Gustav-von-Bergmann-Medaille" is the highest honor awarded by the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin (German Society of Internal Medicine).

Bergmann was co-publisher of the multi-volume Handbuch der normalen und pathologischen Physiologie (Textbook of Normal and Pathological Physiology). Other noted works of his include:

• Funktionelle Pathologie (Functional Pathology), 1932
• Neues Denken in der Medizin (New Reasoning in Medicine), 1947

He attended to physiologist Emil von Behring during the night prior to Behring's death of a pulmonary inflammation on March 31, 1917.

References

• This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.