Hugo Rühle

Hugo Ernst Heinrich Ruehle, Hugo Ernst Heinrich Rühle, ( born September 12, 1824 in Legnica, † July 11, 1888 in Bonn) was a German physician.

Life

Ruehle studied from 1842 to 1848 in Berlin, where he had close contact with Rudolf Virchow, Benno Reinhardt and Ludwig Traube. After receiving his doctorate in 1846 and the passing of the State examination in 1848 he continued his education on scientific travel, before he came in 1849 as doctor of the poor to Wroclaw. In 1851 he was assistant physician at All Saints in Breslau and entered 1852 clinical assistant to Friedrich Theodor Frerichs in the medical clinic. In 1853 he qualified as a lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine with the discussion of studies on the formation of a cavity in tuberculous lungs. In 1859 he became director of the Department and Associate Professor at the University of Breslau.

In the same year Ruehle married the doctor's daughter and sister of a patient Dorothea Margaretha Kästner ( 1831-1907 ). 1872, the daughter Franziska Dora Manuela († 1931) was born.

From 1860 to 1864 taught Ruehle clinical medicine at the University of Greifswald and had held the post of Director of the Polyclinic. Hugo von Ziemssen was his assistant. Then took Ruehle to a call in the same position to Bonn, where the later famous physiologist Nathan Zuntz worked as a doctor with him. In 1888, he died as a Secret Medical Officer in Bonn pleurisy.

Writings (selection )

• The laryngeal diseases, Berlin, Deer Forest, 1861.
• About the current state of the tuberculosis question, Leipzig, in 1871.
• The phthisis and acute miliary tuberculosis, Leipzig, 1877.