Gustav Ernst Brühl (18 June 1871 – 21 November 1939) was a German

otorhinolaryngologist Otorhinolaryngology ( , abbreviated ORL and also known as otolaryngology, otolaryngology–head and neck surgery (ORL–H&N or OHNS), or ear, nose, and throat (ENT)) is a surgical subspecialty within medicine that deals with the surgical an ...

who was a native of

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. He studied medicine in

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and

. and earned his doctorate in 1894. From 1903 until his retirement in 1933, he taught classes at the University of Berlin, where in 1922 he became an associate professor. Seth MacCuen Smith

Brühl's best known written work was the highly regarded ''Atlas und Grundriss der Ohrenheilkunde'', of which he was co-author along with

Adam Politzer Adam is the name given in Genesis 1–5 to the first human. Adam is the first human-being aware of God, and features as such in various belief systems (including Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism and Islam). According to Christianity, Adam sin ...

(1835-1920). In 1902 this book was translated into English by American otologist Seth MacCuen Smith as ''Atlas and Epitome of Otology''.

References

Pagel: Biographical Dictionary (biography translated from German)

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