Wilhelm Filehne

Wilhelm Filehne (12 February 1844, in Posen – 29 April 1927, in Bensheim) was a German pharmacologist, who specialized in research of antipyretic drugs.

[1] He studied medicine at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin, where his instructors included Emil du Bois-Reymond and Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs.

In 1866 he received his doctorate, and afterwards, he worked as assistant under Rudolf Virchow in Berlin.

After participation in the Franco-Prussian War, he returned to Berlin as an assistant to Ludwig Traube.

[2] In 1874 he relocated to the University of Erlangen, where he worked as an assistant under Wilhelm Olivier Leube at the medical polyclinic.