Manfred Bial

Manfred Bial was a German physician, born in Breslau on 10 December 1869 as the son of Max Bial. He worked as an assistant at the Kaiserin-Augusta-Hospital in Berlin. He is remembered for inventing a test for pentoses that uses orcinol, a procedure that still carries his name as Bial's test. He died on 26 May 1908 in Monaco, at the age of thirty-eight. The account of his life that the source gives is brief, so little more can be stated here about his training, his other work or the circumstances of his death.