Name Wilhelm Ebstein Role Physician | Education University of Wroclaw | |
 | ||
Died December 22, 1912, Gottingen, Germany | ||
Wilhelm Ebstein (27 November 1836, Jauer, Prussian Silesia – 22 October 1912) was a German physician.
Contents
Biography
He studied medicine at the University of Breslau under Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs and at the University of Berlin under Rudolf Virchow and Moritz Heinrich Romberg, graduating from the latter institution in 1859. During the same year he was named physician at the Allerheiligen Hospital in Breslau. In 1868 he became chief physician at the "Findelhaus" (municipal poorhouse); and from 1874 was a professor at the University of Göttingen, where he subsequently served as director of the university hospital and dispensary (from 1877).
Achievements
Ebstein's specialties were studies of malassimilation and improper nutrition, of which he introduced an number of new procedures for treatment. This included the virtual elimination of carbohydrates from the diet, while allowing fat to be administered with adequate protein; Ebstein believed that fat contained a nutritive value equivalent to two and a half times that of carbohydrates. The following works are related to dietary and metabolism issues:
Other noteworthy works by Ebstein include:
Ebstein also published works in regards to medical illness of prominent Germans in history, such as Martin Luther and Arthur Schopenhauer.
His name was attached to the eponymous Ebstein's anomaly (a rare congenital heart defect) and Pel-Ebstein fever (a remittent fever associated with Hodgkin's disease).