Wilhelm Schüffner

Wilhelm August Paul Schüffner (2 January 1867, Ovenstädt – 24 December 1949, Hilversum) was a German pathologist and epidemiologist who worked mainly in the Dutch East India colonies and specialized in the study of malaria.

He was a medical officer from 1897 in the Semembah Tobacco estate in eastern Sumatra and until 1923 he worked in the Dutch colonies in Java and Indonesia studying malaria.

He worked on the healthcare of plantation workers in Senembah Maatschappij, Deli, North Sumatra.

[1] From 1916 he was a public health advisor to the colonial government of the Dutch East India Company.

He was elected fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences in 1926 and Leopoldina in 1935.