Weintraud, Wilhelm
Weintraud, Wilhelm
Internist
born: 13.08.1866 in Offenbach am Main
died: 03.09.1920 in Wiesbaden
After studying medicine, Weintraud completed his doctorate in Strasbourg in 1889 and worked here under Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833-1910) and Bernhard Naunyn (1839-1925). In 1893, he habilitated in internal medicine in Strasbourg. From 1894-96 he was senior physician at the Gerhardt Clinic in Berlin and then assistant to Alfred Kast (1856-1903) at the Medical Clinic of the University of Breslau. From 1898, he worked as head of the internal medicine department of the municipal hospitals in Wiesbaden.
Weintraud's work on liver diseases and diabetes mellitus as well as his contributions to the physiology and pathology of uric acid metabolism were fundamental; later he also turned his interest to therapeutic research. His work on "Atophan" (a drug for the treatment of gout and rheumatism) became particularly well known in this field.
Weintraud also published works on "Diabetes mellitus, obesity" (1902) and "Diseases of the liver" (1906).
Literature
Biographical dictionary of the outstanding physicians of the last 50 years. At the same time a continuation of the Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte aller Zeiten und Völker, vols. 1 and 2. ed.: Fischer, Isidor, Berlin [u.a.] 1932 and 1933 [p. 1658 f.].