Hugo Ernst Heinrich Rühle (12 September 1824 – 11 July 1888) was a German physician born in

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(today Legnica, Poland). From 1842 to 1848 he studied medicine in

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, where he came under the influence of

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(1821–1902) Benno Reinhardt (1819-1852) and

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(1818–1876). After graduation, he worked at the ''Allerheiligenhospital'' in Breslau, and in 1852 remained in Breslau as an assistant at the medical clinic of

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(1819–1885). In 1859 he became director of the polyclinic and a professor at the

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. From 1860 to 1864 he was director of the

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department at the

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, afterwards holding down the same position at the

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. Two of his better known assistants were physician

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(1829–1902) at

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and

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(1847–1920) at

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Selected publications

* ''Die Kehlkopf-Krankheiten'' (

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), 1861. * ''Über den gegenwärtigen Stand der Tuberkulosenfrage'' (On the present state of

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), 1871. * ''Die Lungenschwindsucht und die acute Miliartuberkulose'' (

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and acute

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), 1877.

References

''Hugo Rühle''
translated biography at

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ruhle, Hugo People from Legnica Physicians from the Province of Silesia Academic staff of the University of Breslau Academic staff of the University of Bonn Academic staff of the University of Greifswald 1824 births 1888 deaths 19th-century German physicians