Georg Erhard Hamberger

{{Short description|German professor of medicine, surgery, and botany (1697–1755)}}

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| name = Georg Erhard Hamberger

| image = Georg Erhard Hamberger. Line engraving by M. Bernigeroth. Wellcome V0002540.jpg

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| caption = Georg Erhard Hamberger

| birth_date = 21 December 1697

| birth_place = Jena, Saxe-Weimar

| death_date = {{death-date and age|22 July 1755|21 December 1697}}

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| nationality = German

| field = Medicine, physiology, botany

| alma_mater = University of Jena

| work_institutions = University of Jena

| doctoral_advisor = Johann Adolph Wedel{{cite web|url=http://www.ndsu.edu/chemistry/files/genealogy-web.pdf|title=Academic Genealogy of the NDSU Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology|publisher=North Dakota State University, USA|accessdate=March 16, 2012|archive-date=December 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181211080217/https://www.ndsu.edu/chemistry/files/genealogy-web.pdf|url-status=dead}}

| doctoral_students = Christoph Andreas Mangold

| known_for = Physiology of respiration

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Georg Erhard Hamberger (21 December 1697 – 22 July 1755) was a German professor of medicine, surgery, and botany.

Biography

Hamberger was born in Jena, and received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Jena in 1721.{{MathGenealogy|125886}} He studied the physiology of respiration, especially with respect to breathing.{{cite web |url=http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/Web_Genealogy/Info/hambergerge.pdf| title=Georg Erhardt Hamberger | publisher=University of Illinois, USA |work= Chemical Genealogy | accessdate=March 19, 2012}} He authored a textbook on physiology, covering the thorax muscles, intercostal muscles, and pleural sac. He also studied the reaction of camphor and nitric acid. His writings included the study of gravitation and the ascension of gases.

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