Rudolf Ulrich Krönlein practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Rudolf Ulrich Krönlein as Swiss surgeon (1847-1910).
Rudolf Ulrich Krönlein was born at Stein am Rhein in 1847. His recorded nationality is Switzerland. He trained at University of Zurich.
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 Giessen and University of Zurich.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Switzerland matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Rudolf Ulrich Krönlein died in 1910, aged 63. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Giessen and University of Zurich
