Carl Benjamin Klunzinger practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Carl Benjamin Klunzinger as Württembergian physician for tropical diseases and zoologist (1834-1914).
Carl Benjamin Klunzinger was born at Güglingen in 1834. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Württemberg.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at University of Stuttgart.
The recorded fields of work are zoology.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Kingdom of Württemberg matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Carl Benjamin Klunzinger died in 1914, aged 80. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Stuttgart
- Fields: zoology
