Ernst Ludwig Heim

Ernst Ludwig Heim (22 July 1747 – 15 September 1834) was a German physician and naturalist born in Solz, Thuringia.

Heim married Charlotte Maeker in 1780 and in April 1783 they moved to Berlin with their young daughter and lived at the Gendarmenmarkt.

He opened a practice in Markgrafenstraße where he had a system of treating poor patients for free in the early morning.

In 1822, in recognition of decades of altruistic service, and on the 50th anniversary of earning his doctorate, Heim was made an honorary citizen of Berlin.

[3] Heim died on 15 September 1834 in his bed and Berliners escorted the carriage of his body to the cemetery at Halleschen gate in large numbers.