Ernst Viktor von Leyden

Who was Ernst Viktor von Leyden?

Ernst Viktor von Leyden was a German internist from Danzig.

Leyden studied medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Institut in Berlin, and was a pupil of Johann Lukas Schönlein and Ludwig Traube. He was a medical professor at several universities, including Königsberg, Strassburg and Berlin. Leyden was an important influence to the career of Ludwig Edinger, and during his tenure at the University of Königsberg worked closely with Otto Spiegelberg and Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen. Among his better known students and assistants were Hermann Nothnagel at Königsberg and Hermann Ludwig Eichhorst in Berlin.

In the 1890s he was a physician to Czar Alexander III of Russia.

Leyden died in Berlin. The political philosopher Wolfgang von Leyden was his grandson.

Leyden specialized in neurological diseases, and was a leader in establishing proper hospital facilities for tuberculosis patients. He wrote articles on a wide array of medical topics, including works on tabes dorsalis and poliomyelitis. In 1899 he published the two-volume Handbuch der Ernährungstherapie.