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Portrait of Karl Wilhelm Flügel by Johann Friedrich Dietler

Karl Wilhelm Flügel (baptized March 18, 1788 in Bern ; † June 5, 1857 there ) was a Swiss doctor.

Life

Karl Wilhelm wings came from the regiment enabled family wing of Berne from Buchau am Federsee came and in 1625 in Bern settled. He was the son of the red tanner Johann Rudolf and Maria Katharina Salome Kohler. Flügel received medical training at Inselspital Bern. He passed the state examination as a doctor and surgeon at the Bern Academy . Study trips took him to Heidelberg , Würzburg and Paris . In 1810 he opened a practice in Le Locle , and in 1814 he moved to Bern. He became a member of the Bern Medical College and Chief Vaccinator of the Canton of Bern. In 1834 he was appointed chief field doctor, garrison doctor and doctor of the Bern military hospital and received an honorary doctorate in medicine from the University of Bern. The Swiss Army appointed him to head the Swiss military medical service in 1835 (last active service in the Neuchâtel trade 1856–1857). In 1841 he was promoted to colonel . He wrote a critical report on the medical system in the Sonderbund War .

Archival material

• Holdings in the burger library in Bern .

Fonts

• Report on the health service in the 6th federal camp in Bière in August 1830, to the titular superintendent Hirzel. Haller, Bern 1831.
• Report on the protective pox vaccination and vaccination institute during 1832 to the Tit. Sanitary Commission of the Department of the Interior of the Republick Bern. Stämpfli, Bern 1834.
• Report on the vaccination facility in Canton Bern, from 1835. Stämpfli, Bern 1837.
• List of the Federal Army killed and wounded in various battles against the Sonderbund. 1848.
• Subsequent listing of the fallen and wounded of the Federal Army under the supreme command of Sr. Excellence of General Dufour, both of those who occurred as a result of the fighting as well as through accidental injuries during the campaign against the Sonderbund cantons; also as an appendix the directory of the fallen and wounded of the Sonderbund Army. Jenni, Bern 1848.
• Relation about the health service in the federal army during the special federal campaign in October and November 1847 and about the general condition of the federal military health system, with the proposals of the conference commission of federal division doctors. Haller, Bern 1849. Full text in the Google book search

literature

• Beat von Tscharner: Biographical reports about Mr. Med. Karl Wilhelm Flügel, Federal Chief Medical Officer. Sarmenstorf 1857.
• Collection of Bernese biographies. Volume 5 (1906), pp. 180-189. doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-32410
• Max Winzenried: The military medical service in Switzerland from mediation to the Sonderbund War. Schwabe, Basel 1954.
• Erich Siffert: Smallpox in the canton of Bern during the 18th and 19th centuries. Licensing thesis. Bern 1993 online .

Web links

• Christoph Mörgeli : wings, Karl Wilhelm. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .