Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich

Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich was a German medical doctor, pioneer psychiatrist and medical professor. He was born in Sulz am Neckar on 4 August 1815 and died in Leipzig on 25 September 1877. He is known for his measurement of the mean normal human body temperature of 37 degrees Celsius (98.6 degrees Fahrenheit), a figure now understood to be more accurately about 36.8 degrees Celsius (98.2 degrees Fahrenheit). The source article gives his birthplace, his place of death and these three roles, and the Atlas records him as a nineteenth century German physician and academic whose best known contribution is the measurement of normal body temperature, leaving the details of his clinical and psychiatric work for later depth work.