Ernst Gottfried Baldinger

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 a treatise in 1765, De Militum Morbis, which met with a favourable reception. In 1768 he became professor of medicine at Jena, which he left in 1773 for Göttingen, and in 1785 he moved to Marburg, where he died of apoplexy on 21 January 1804.

Among his pupils were Samuel Thomas Sommerring, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, and Johann Christian Wiegleb. He wrote approximately eighty-four separate treatises, in addition to numerous papers scattered through various collections and journals.

References

•  Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Baldinger, Ernst Gottfried". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.