Ernst Schwalbe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ernst Schwalbe

pathologist and university teacher (1871-1920)

Date of Birth: 26-Jan-1871

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 16-Mar-1920

Profession: university teacher, pathologist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Ernst Theodor Karl Schwalbe (26 January 1871 – 16 March 1920) was a German pathologist, who specialized in teratological research. Schwalbe was born in Berlin.
He studied medicine at the universities of Strassburg, Berlin and Heidelberg, and received his habilitation in 1900 with a thesis on blood coagulation.
Afterwards, he worked as an assistant under Julius Arnold at Heidelberg, and in 1907/08 served as prosector and head of the pathology-bacteriology clinic at the city hospital in Karlsruhe.
From 1908 to 1920 he was a full professor at the University of Rostock.
He was killed in Rostock while serving as a volunteer during the Kapp Putsch (1920).