Edgar von Gierke

Edgar Otto Conrad von Gierke (9 February 1877, in Breslau – 21 October 1945, in Karlsruhe) was a German Jewish pathologist who specialized in glycogenesis and discovered glycogen storage disease type I (formerly known as von Gierke disease) in 1929.

Early life Edgar was born in 1877 the Prussian province of Silesia in Breslau to a famous Pomeranian German family. He was the son of the noted legal scholar Otto von Gierke and Marie Caecilie Elise (Lili) née Loening (1850–1936). Edgar had a sister named Anna von Gierke and a brother named Julius. During his career, he published the highly regarded on anatomy book Taschenbuch der pathologischen Anatomie (Pocketbook of Pathological Anatomy).

In 1945, von Gierke died from an unknown progressive heart disease at the age of 68.

Awards For his military service as a surgeon during World War I, von Gierke received the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class and the Knight's Cross 2nd class as well as swords of the Order of the Zähringer Lion. A street in Karslruhe was named after him in his honor.