Wilhelm Kuby

Wilhelm Kuby (born April 24, 1829 in Zweibrücken , † September 1894 in Göggingen ) was a German medic.

Life

Wilhelm Kuby studied medicine at the Universities of Erlangen and Würzburg. In Erlangen he became a member of the Baruthia Corps in 1847 . In 1851 he completed his studies with a doctorate to become Dr. med. from. From 1852 to 1874 he was a general practitioner and district doctor in his native Palatinate. From 1874 to 1884 he was a district court doctor and from 1885 to 1892 he was a government and district medical councilor in the government of Swabia in Augsburg.

In addition to his work as a general practitioner, he also worked as a military doctor à la suite. He took part in the German War as a voluntary nursing doctor and as a regimental doctor. At the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War he was chief physician at the Speyer reserve hospital. Later, as a regimental doctor, he led the evacuation from the Bavarian field hospitals during the siege of Paris. After the war, he was an instructor in the voluntary medical column in Augsburg as a general physician.

Kuby published about his field medical work and questions of hygiene.

Fonts

• Some on the nature and treatment of zoster, 1851
• Report of a doctor about voluntary nursing in the war 1870/71, 1871 (2nd edition)
• The elementary school - with special consideration of the conditions in the country and in small towns - for administrative and community authorities, construction technicians, doctors, schoolmen and parents, 1875
• The Medicinal Legislation in the Kingdom of Bavaria, Volume 1 1883, Volume 2 1887, Volume 3 1891 (together with Aloys Martin )

literature

• Pagel: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin, Vienna 1901, Col. 920-921. ( Permalink )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 19 , 332
2. ↑ Dissertation: Something about the nature and treatment of zoster .