Goldberger

American  

[gohld-bur-ger] / ˈgoʊld bɜr gər /

noun

1. Joseph, 1874–1929, U.S. physician, born in Austria: discovered the cause of and treatment for pellagra.

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Goldberger Scientific  

/ gōld′bər-gər /

1. Hungarian-born American physician who investigated the cause and treatment of pellagra. He demonstrated that contrary to common belief, pellagra was not an infectious disease but a nutritional disorder caused by an unbalanced diet and cured by the addition of fresh milk, meat, or yeast.

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Example Sentences

Even a city as symbolically rich as Washington shouldn’t stay mired in the past, Goldberger, the architecture critic, acknowledges in Air Mail.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

Roth was guided by what the critic Paul Goldberger, in his foreword to this book, calls “a strong knowledge not only of architectural history, but of urban propriety.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

TikToker Meg Goldberger, 27, is no stranger to collecting in a market filled with fakes.

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2025

“There is nothing, at first glance, particularly appealing about the Aluminaire House,” Goldberger wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2024

With this his Princely Grace and we all were obliged to be content, and to drink bad Goldberger beer.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. by Freytag, Gustav