Paul Friedrich Wolfskehl practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Paul Friedrich Wolfskehl as German physician and mathematician.
Paul Friedrich Wolfskehl was born at Darmstadt in 1856. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at Technical University of Darmstadt.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at Technical University of Darmstadt.
The recorded fields of work are mathematics.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Germany matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Paul Friedrich Wolfskehl died in 1906, aged 50. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Technical University of Darmstadt
- Fields: mathematics
