Ragnar Berg
Ragnar Berg (1873-1956) was a Swedish-born biochemist and nutritionist who worked in Germany.
Life
Ragnar Berg was the son of the Swedish historian and archaeologist Wilhelm Berg (1839-1915).
From 1909 to 1921 Berg headed the homeopathic sanitorium founded by Heinrich Lahmann at Weisser Hirsch near Dresden,[1] researching vitamins, trace elements and the metabolism of minerals.[2] While writing his Vitamins (1923) he was dismissed from Lahmann's Sanitorium, since its "directors did not value his scientific approach to nutrition".[3] Berg was recruited by Karl Lingner to the Dresden Center for Dental Hygiene (Zentralstelle für Zahnhygiene). Berg demonstrated the dangers of high ash content in foods. After 1933 he became head of the nutrition department in Dresden-Johannstadt.[4]
Works
- (with Martin Vogel) Die Grundlagen einer richtigen Ernährung, Dresden, 1907
- Die nahrungs- und genussmittel, ihre zusammensetzung und ihr einfluss auf die gesundheit, mit besonderer berücksichtigung der aschenbestandteile, Dresden: Holze & Pahl, 1913
- Die Vitamine : kritische Übersicht der Lehre von den Ergänzungsstoffen, Leipzig: Hirzel, 1922.
- Translated by Cedar and Eden Paul as Vitamins; a critical survey of the theory of accessory food factors. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1923.
- Eiweissbedarf und mineralstoffwechsel bei einfachster ernährung, Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1931
References
- ^ William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Africa (1857-2009): Extensively Annotated Bibliography and Sourcebook, Soyinfo Center, 2009, p.200
- ^ Friedhelm Kirchfeld, Wade Boyle, Nature doctors: pioneers in naturopathic medicine, Medicina Biológica, 1994, p.148
- ^ David F. Smith, Jim Phillips, Food, science, policy and regulation in the twentieth century: international and comparative perspectives, Routledge, 2000
- ^ Eike Reichardt, Health, 'Race' and Empire: Popular-Scientific Spectacles and National Identity in Imperial Germany, 1871-1914, 2008, pp.126-7
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