Hugo Rühle

Hugo Rühle was a German physician, born on 12 September 1824 in Liegnitz, today Legnica in Poland, who died on 11 July 1888. He studied medicine in Berlin from 1842 to 1848, where he came under the influence of Rudolf Virchow, Benno Reinhardt and Ludwig Traube. After graduating he worked at the Allerheiligenhospital in Breslau, and in 1852 he stayed in Breslau as an assistant at the medical clinic of Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs. In 1859 he became director of the polyclinic and a professor at the University of Breslau. From 1860 to 1864 he directed the clinical medicine department at the University of Greifswald, and afterwards he held the same position at the University of Bonn. Two of his better known assistants were the physician Hugo von Ziemssen at Greifswald and the physiologist Nathan Zuntz at Bonn. His career belongs to the generation of German clinicians trained in the circle around Virchow who built university clinics in the nineteenth century.