Education
He studied medicine at the University of Würzburg, earning his doctorate in 1856.
internist physician university professor
He studied medicine at the University of Würzburg, earning his doctorate in 1856.
Subsequently he was an assistant to Heinrich von Bamberger (1822–1888) and Franz von Rinecker (1811–1883) in Würzburg, and worked under Wilhelm Griesinger (1817–1868) in Tübingen. In 1860 he received his habiltation in Würzburg, and during the following year was appointed professor of medicine and head of the department of internal medicine at the University of Jena. In 1872 he returned to the University of Würzburg to fulfill similar duties.
In 1885 he was successor to pathologist Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs (1819–1885) at the Charité in Berlin, where he established the second internal medicine clinic.
At Berlin, one of his assistants was immunologist Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915). He died in Gamburg on 22 July 1902.
"Gerhardt’s law" (on vocal paralysis): Which states that in paralysis of the periodically recurring laryngeal nerve, the vocal cords assume a position between abduction and adduction. Position also known as the "cadaver position".
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.