Woldemar Mobitz

He then studied medicine at the Universities of Freiburg and Munich, where he earned his doctorate in 1914 (“Contributions to Basedow disease”).

In Munich, Mobitz was promoted to the position of a senior lecturer thanks to his research on heart block.

In 1928, after a 4-year tenure, he accepted a post in Freiburg as Associate Professor and Chief of Staff of the Clinic of Internal Medicine.

In 1924, Mobitz differentiated two types of second-degree AV block with the aid of the electrocardiogram and characterized their prognostic significance.

This form is identical to the previously described type of second-degree AV block by Wenckebach at the end of the nineteenth century.