Karl August von Solbrig (17 September 1809 in Fürth – 31 May 1872 in Munich) was a German physician and psychiatrist.
He studied medicine at the universities of Munich and Erlangen, where he also served as an assistant to pathologist Adolph Henke.
From 1834 he took a study trip during which he investigated the asylum systems of Germany, France and Belgium.
Around 1836 he worked for several months as an assistant to psychiatrist Karl Wilhelm Ideler at the Charité hospital in Berlin, then afterwards settled as a general practitioner in his hometown of Fürth.
He is credited with establishing psychiatry as a specific medical discipline at the faculty of medicine in Munich.