Wilhelm Schulthess

Wilhelm Schulthess (18 May 1855 in Villnachern – 6 March 1917 in Zürich) was a Swiss internist and pediatrician, known for his work in the field of orthopedics.

In 1883, with August Lüning (1852–1925), he opened a private orthopedic institute in Zürich.

[1] In 1908 he was appointed president of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Chirurgie (German Society of Orthopedic Surgery).

He was instrumental towards the founding of the Schweizerischen Vereins für krüppelhafte Kinder (Swiss Association for Crippled Children; 1909).

[1] He specialized in research of scoliosis, of which, he developed methods for measuring and recording the degree and the different types of the disorder.