Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich

[1] He attended grammar school in Stuttgart and at the age of eighteen he began his medical studies at University of Tübingen, where he completed his final exams in 1837.

In 1838 he worked as assistant at St Catharine's Hospital in Stuttgart, and wrote his MD thesis.

There he introduced clinical pedagogy, combined with a rigorous methodology of diagnosis, and empirical observation of patients.

He described an extremely rare eponymous syndrome that consists of retroperitoneal bleeding from the kidney, which tracks into the surrounding tissues.

In 1871, he was appointed to the Department of Medicine's organisational commission for the construction and design of psychiatric hospitals.