Physician, endocrinologist
Born in Ostem, then Hungary. He was professor Stricker’s assistant.
In 1896 he became assistant professor at the Propadeutikischen Klinic in Prague and was among the most meaningful researchers in the field of endocrinology.
He was the publisher of the medical periodical ‘Endocrinologie.’ His work about internal secretion (1910) has been translated into English. In 1922 he published a treatise about hypophyse and in 1928 he published the ‘Wirkungen der strahlenden Energien auf die endoctrinen Drusen und auf die innere Secretion’ (Effects of radiation energy on the endocrine glands and on internal secretion.)
The ‘Biedl disease’ is named after Ernst Biedl.