Name Gustav Bergmann Parents Ernst von Bergmann | Role Ernst von Bergmann's son | |
Died September 16, 1955, Munich, Germany People also search for Ernst von Bergmann, Martin Goldner, Ludwig Heilmeyer | ||
Gustav von Bergmann (December 24, 1878 – September 16, 1955) was a German internist born in Wurzburg. 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 second medical hospital in Berlin under Friedrich Kraus. In 1916 he became a full professor of internal medicine in Marburg, and later a professor at Frankfurt am Main (from 1920), the Berlin Charite (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 Medal is the highest honor awarded by the German Society of Internal Medicine.
With Albrecht Bethe and Gustav Georg Embden, he was co-publisher of the multi-volume Handbuch der normalen und pathologischen Physiologie. With Rudolf Stahelin, he published the second edition of Handbuch der inneren Medizin. Other noted works of his include:
He attended to physiologist Emil von Behring during the night prior to Behring's death of a pulmonary inflammation on March 31, 1917.