Karl Gottlob Kühn

Karl Gottlob Kühn (12 July 1754, in Spergau – 19 June 1840, in Leipzig) was a German physician and medical historian.

He studied medicine at the University of Leipzig, earning his doctorate in 1783 with the dissertation thesis "De forcibus obstetriciis nuper inventis".

[4][5] He was also the author of books associated with more recent physicians — he translated works by William Hunter (1784 f.), Thomas Beddoes (1803, 1810) and Charles Bell (1822), and edited works by Thomas Sydenham (1826) and Giorgio Baglivi (1827-28).

[2] As a physician, his interests included the use of electricity as it pertained to therapy, smallpox vaccine, obstetrics and food poisoning.

He was co-editor of the "Neuen Sammlung der auserlesensten und neuesten Abhandlungen für Wundärzte" (1782–89), the new "Leipziger Literaturzeitung" (from 1803) and the "Magazins der neuesten Erfindungen, Entdeckungen und Verbesserungen" (from 1808).