Dr. John E. Greiwe
Dr. John E. Greiwe, who began practice at Cincinnati in 1892 and is now one of the busiest physicians of the city, was born September 26, 1865, and is a son of John H. and Sophia (Tepe) Greiwe. After receiving his preliminary education he matriculated in the Medical College of Ohio, at which he took the usual course, graduating with the degree of M. D. in 1889. For eighteen months, from 1890 to 1892, he filled the position of interne at the City Hospital. Feeling the importance of pursuing his studies further, he went abroad in 1892 and took instruction under leading physicians and surgeons at Strasbourg and Berlin, where he continued for two and one-half years. Dr. Greiwe then returned to Cincinnati and has since practiced continuously in this city, making a specialty of internal medicine. His efficiency and skill received early acknowledgment, and he soon won an enviable place in the estimation and confidence of his brother practitioners and also of the public. As the years passed, he gained much more than local distinction and is now serving as assistant professor of internal medicine at the Ohio-Miami Medical College, which is the medical department of the University of Cincinnati. He is also senior physician on the medical staff of the City Hospital and on the staff of the Good Samaritan Hospital. For eight years, he was in charge of the museum and the clinical and pathological laboratories at the Cincinnati Hospital and was the physician to organize the first post-graduate courses in pathology and clinical microscopy at the same hospital. He is one of the censors of the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati and at one time was its president, and is a member of the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is greatly interested in the wonderful advances made in his profession and is an active member of the Cincinnati Society for Medical Research, which has proven to be one of the most important auxiliaries in the promotion of efficiency in the profession that is to be found in the west.
In 1893, Dr. Greiwe was married to Miss Johanna Richard, a daughter of Dr. C. H. Richard, of this city. The father is still living and has arrived at the advanced age of eighty-two years. Dr. Greiwe holds membership in the Omega Upsilon Phi, a Greek letter fraternity, with which he became identified when at college. He has been from the beginning of his professional life an untiring worker, and his ability and accomplishments have contributed very perceptibly to the credit of the profession and the relief of thousands of patients. As a physician, he was gifted with natural endowments for the difficult calling but he owes his success also to a long and arduous course of study and to the conscientious performance of his duties. Dr. Greiwe ranks as one of the leading practitioners of Cincinnati, his office being at 32 Garfield Place.
From Cincinnati, The Queen City, Volume III by Rev. Charles Fredric Goss, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1912