Pathologist
Born in Pardubice, Bohemia (Czech Republic), then part of the Austrian Empire. He was a co-worker of Professor Salomon Stricker at the Experimental Pathological Institute in Vienna. From 1890 Gartner became professor himself at the same faculty.
Like Salomon Stricker, G. Gartner too had an inventive mind. The tonometer for measuring blood pressure, the ergostat and the reostat were his inventions. The Walcher-Gartner Selbstretter, a self-saver devise used by miners, also bears his name. Gartner’s other inventions include the gyroscope centrifuge and the electric two-cell-bath for therapy. He is author of Elektrische Medicinalbader (1893) and the Hirnkreislauf. Gartner wrote in his Diaetetische Entfettungskuren (1899) about the cure of metabolism, which farther enhanced his reputation.