Wunderlich biography
Wunderlich biography
Fritz Wunderlich (Tenor) - Short Biography.
Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich
German physician and psychiatrist
Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich (4 August 1815, Sulz am Neckar – 25 September 1877, Leipzig) was a German physician, pioneer psychiatrist, and medical professor.
He is known for his measurement of mean normal human body temperature of 37 °C (98.6 °F), now known more accurately to be about 36.8 °C (98.2 °F).[1]
Life and career
He attended grammar school in Stuttgart and at the age of eighteen he began his medical studies at University of Tübingen, where he completed his final exams in 1837.
In 1838 he worked as assistant at St Catharine's Hospital in Stuttgart, and wrote his MD thesis.
Fritz wunderlich biography
Two years later he wrote his MD habilitation on internal medicine at University of Tübingen.
In 1846, he was appointed Professor (ordentlicher Professor) and head of the general hospital at Tübingen. He moved to Leipzig University as Professor and Medical Director of the university hospit