Carl von Noorden (pathologist)

Karl Harko von Noorden (13 September 1858 – 26 October 1944) was a German internist, born in Bonn and educated in medicine at Tübingen, Freiberg, and Leipzig (M.D., 1882).

In 1889 he became first assistant of the medical clinic at Berlin University, in 1894 was called to Frankfurt am Main as physician in charge of the municipal hospital, and in 1906 was appointed professor of medicine at the University of Vienna, as a successor to Carl Nothnagel.

Von Noorden made special researches involving albuminuria in health, metabolism disorders and its treatment,[1] diabetes, diseases of the kidney, dietetics, etc., and wrote on these subjects, some of his books appearing in English.

His book on diabetes and its treatment, "Die zuckerkrankheit und ihre behandlung" (1895), was published over numerous editions.

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