Ernst Schwalbe


Ernst Theodor Karl Schwalbe 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.

Selected works

Untersuchungen zur Blutgerinnung : Beiträge zur Chemie und Morphologie der Coagulation des Blutes, 1900 - Studies on blood coagulation: Contributions to the chemistry and morphology of coagulation of the blood.Vorlesungen über der Geschichte der Medizin, 1905 - Lectures on the history of medicine. Die Morphologie der Missbildungen des Menschen und der Tiere - Morphology of malformations of humans and animals:
  • * I. Allgemeine Missbildungslehre - General teratology.
  • * II. Die Doppelbildungen - Double formations.
  • * III. Die Einzelmissbildungen - Single malformations.Untersuchungen über künstliche Parthenogenese und das Wesen des Befruchtungsvorgangs, 1906 - Studies on artificial parthenogenesis and the nature of the fertilization process.Kleinlebewesen und Krankheiten; sechs volkswissenschaftliche Vorträge über Bakteriologie und Hygiene, 1908 - Microbes and diseases: Six scientific lectures on bacteriology and hygiene. Studien zur Pathologie der Entwicklung - Studies on the pathology of development.