Alfred Kast

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Alfred Kast (1883/84)

Alfred Kast (born July 25, 1856 in Achern ; † January 6, 1903 in Nice ) was a German physician and professor of internal medicine at the University of Breslau .

Life

His father Hermann Kast (1827–1881) was a doctor at a psychiatric facility in Illenau and then a district doctor in Freiburg. Alfred Kast was also born in Illenau, now part of Achern. Kast graduated from high school in Freiburg and began studying medicine there, which he continued in Heidelberg (member of the Corps Rhenania ) and Leipzig (member of the Corps Saxonia ). As part of his degree, he received his doctorate in January 1879. med. and then worked in Heidelberg, Leipzig and Munich. After his habilitation (1883) he became an associate professor at the University of Freiburg in 1886 . In 1888 he received a position as director of the internal department of the general hospital in Hamburg-Eppendorf. In 1892 Kast became a full professor of internal medicine and director of the Royal Medical Clinic and Polyclinic of the University of Wroclaw. One of his scientific successes was the introduction of the sulfonal as a sleep aid in medical therapy. In addition, he worked in the field of physiological chemistry, nervous diseases, cerebral polio and primary degenerative neuritis.

See also

Publications

  • Pathological-anatomical tables based on fresh specimens (together with Theodor Rumpel ), 1892–1897

literature

  • Hamburger Nachrichten , January 8, 1903 (evening edition)
  • Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog VIII (1903), p. 102
  • Pagel, Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Physicians of the 19th Century, 1901
  • Fischer, Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Doctors for the Last Fifty Years, Volume 1, 1932
  • Anna Kreuter, German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists, Volume 2, 1996
personal data
SURNAME Kast, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and professor of internal medicine at the University of Wroclaw
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Achern
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1903
Place of death Nice