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Ernst Gottfried Baldinger
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or ERNST GOTTFRIED BALDINGER (1738-1804), German physician, was born near Erfurt on the 13th of May 1738. He studied medicine at Erfurt, Halle and Jena, and in 1761 was entrusted with the superintendence of the military hospitals connected with the Prussian encampment near Torgau. He published in 1765 a treatise De Militum Morbis, which met with a favourable reception. In 1768 he became professor of medicine at Jena, whence he removed in 1773 to Göttingen, and in 1785 to Marburg, where he died of apoplexy on the 21st of January 1804. Among his pupils were S. T. Sommerring and J. F. Blumenbach. Some eighty-four separate treatises are mentioned as having proceeded from his pen, in addition to numerous papers scattered through various collections and journals.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Ernst Gottfried Baldinger'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/e/ernst-gottfried-baldinger.html. 1910.
