Ernst Friedberger

Ernst Friedberger (May 17, 1875 - January 25, 1932) was a German immunologist and hygienist who was a native of Giessen.

In 1899 he received his medical doctorate at the University of Giessen, and in 1901 became an assistant at the University of Konigsberg, where in 1903 he was habilitated as a lecturer in hygiene. In 1908 he attained the directorship of experimental therapy at the Institute of Pharmacology at the University of Berlin. From 1915 to 1926 he was professor of hygiene at the University of Greifswald, and afterwards director of the Research Institute of Hygiene and Immunology in Berlin-Dahlem.

Friedberger is remembered for his investigations of anaphylaxis, and his development of a toxic principle concerning mammalian serum that was treated with aggregated immunoglobulins. He coined the term "anaphylatoxin" to describe this hypothetical poison when he noticed that treated animals displayed an anaphylactoid shock reaction.

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* "This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia."
* [http://www.jem.org/cgi/reprint/21/5/480.pdf The Nature of Anaphylatoxin]