Ernst Gottfried Baldinger

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Ernst Gottfried Baldinger (13 May 1738 - 21 January 1804), German physician, was born near Erfurt.

He studied medicine at Erfurt, Halle and Jena, earning his MD in 1760 under the guidance of Christoph Mangold 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 21 January 1804.

Among his pupils were ST Sommerring and JF Blumenbach, and Johann Christian Wiegleb. Some eighty-four separate treatises are mentioned as having proceeded from his pen, in addition to numerous papers scattered through various collections and journals.