Friedrich Küchenmeister

Gottlieb Heinrich Friedrich Küchenmeister[1] (22 January 1821, Buchheim (now Bad Lausick) – 13 April 1890 Dresden) was a German physician.

Küchenmeister studied medicine in Leipzig and Prague, and in 1846 he became a general practitioner in Zittau.

He was also publisher of the Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Epidemiologie (General Journal of Epidemiology).

In 1852, his theory that bladder-worms are juvenile tapeworms gained the attention of the medical profession.

[7] Küchenmeister was an advocate of cremation, as he saw the risk of soil contamination in the putrefaction and decomposition products that occur after burial.