Albert Friedrich Veiel was a German dermatologist who was a native of Ludwigsburg

Ludwigsburg

Ludwigsburg is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar. It is the largest and primary city of the Ludwigsburg urban district with about 87,000 inhabitants...

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He studied at the Universities of Tübingen and Paris

University of Paris

The University of Paris was a university located in Paris, France and one of the earliest to be established in Europe. It was founded in the mid 12th century, and officially recognized as a university probably between 1160 and 1250...

, and in 1829 earned his medical doctorate. In 1837 at Cannstatt he founded the first in-patient dermatological clinic in Germany. The clinic was called the Heilanstalt für Flechtenkranke, and with orthopedist Jakob Heine

Jakob Heine

Jakob Heine was a German orthopaedist. He is most famous for his 1840 study into poliomyelitis, which was the first medical report on the disease, and the first time the illness was recognised as a clinical entity...

(1800–1879) and others, Veiel was a catalyst in making Cannstatt an important treatment centre that attracted numerous celebrities and members of European aristocracy.

Selected publications

• Grundzüge der Behandlung der Flechten in der Heilanstalt in Cannstatt, (Fundamentals of Treatment at the Flechtenkranke Sanitarium in Cannstatt), (1843); Stuttgart
• Die Mineralquellen in Cannstatt, (Mineral Springs in Cannstatt), (1852); Stuttgart
• Mittheilungen über die Behandlung der chronischen Hautkrankheiten in der Heilanstalt für Flechtenkranke in Cannstatt, (On the Treatment of Chronic Skin Diseases in the Sanitarium for Flechtenkranke at Cannstatt), (1862); Stuttgart