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JAMA. 1970;213(2):291-292.

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Willy Kühne, student of F. Wöhler, R. Wagner, W. E. Weber, J. Henle, C. G. Lehmann, R. Virchow, C. Bernard,C.Ludwig,E.Brücke,du Bois-Reymond, and Hoppe-Seyler, gained the stature of his teachers during an enviable career in scientific medicine. Kühne was born in Hamburg, and studied first and last at Göttingen; there he took the degree of doctor of philosophy at the age of 19, having attended universities in Berlin, Paris, and Vienna in the interim.¹ His inaugural thesis on artificial diabetes in the frog was inspired by Bernard's epochal contribution on experimental diabetes. Other early communications by Kühne discussed icterus, the formation of hippuric acid from benzoic acid, the chemical constituents of bile, urinary excretion of hemoglobin, and the physical and physiological characteristics of muscle.

In 1861, Kühne was invited by Virchow to join the Pathological Institute at the University of Berlin as chemical assistant and successor to Hoppe-Seyler. His brilliant work . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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