Gustav von Bergmann

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

Education In 1903, he received his doctorate at the University of Strasbourg, and afterwards worked at the second medical hospital in Berlin under Friedrich Kraus. In 1916, he became a full professor of internal medicine at Marburg University, and later a professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main (from 1920), the Berlin Charité (from 1927) and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (from 1946).

Career 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. From 1994 to 2010, the Gustav-von-Bergmann-Medaille was 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 Stähelin, he published the second edition of Handbuch der inneren Medizin. Other noted works of his include: Das vegetative Nervensystem und seine Störungen (The autonomic nervous system and its disorders). 1926. 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.