Karl von Pfeufer was a German physician who was a native of Bamberg

Bamberg

Bamberg is a city in Bavaria, Germany. It is located in Upper Franconia on the river Regnitz, close to its confluence with the river Main. Bamberg is one of the few cities in Germany that was not destroyed by World War II bombings because of a nearby Artillery Factory that prevented planes from...

. He studied at Erlangen

Erlangen

Erlangen is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. It is located at the confluence of the river Regnitz and its large tributary, the Untere Schwabach.Erlangen has more than 100,000 inhabitants....

 and Würzburg

Würzburg

Würzburg is a city in the region of Franconia which lies in the northern tip of Bavaria, Germany. Located at the Main River, it is the capital of the Regierungsbezirk Lower Franconia. The regional dialect is Franconian....

, and afterwards became an assistant to Johann Lukas Schönlein

Johann Lukas Schönlein

Johann Lukas Schönlein was a German naturalist, and professor of medicine, born in Bamberg. He studied medicine at Landshut, Jena, Göttingen, and Würzburg...

 (1793–1864). In 1840 he became a professor and director at the clinic of internal medicine

Internal medicine

Internal medicine is the medical specialty dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of adult diseases. Physicians specializing in internal medicine are called internists. They are especially skilled in the management of patients who have undifferentiated or multi-system disease processes...

 in Zurich

Zürich

Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...

, and in 1844 he succeeded Theodor Bischoff

Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff

Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff was a German physician and biologist who lectured on pathological anatomy at Heidelberg and held professorships in anatomy and physiology at Giessen and Munich where he was appointed to the chair of anatomy and physiology in 1854...

 (1807–1882) as professor of pharmaceutical instruction at Heidelberg

Heidelberg

-Early history:Between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, "Heidelberg Man" died at nearby Mauer. His jaw bone was discovered in 1907; with scientific dating, his remains were determined to be the earliest evidence of human life in Europe. In the 5th century BC, a Celtic fortress of refuge and place of...

. In 1852 he became a clinical professor at Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

. Some of his better known students and assistants were Friedrich Albert von Zenker

Friedrich Albert von Zenker

Friedrich Albert von Zenker was a German pathologist and physician, celebrated for his discovery of trichinosis. He was born in Dresden, and was educated in Leipzig and Heidelberg. Attached to the city hospital of Dresden in 1851, he added, in 1855, the duties of professor of pathological...

 (1825–1898), Adolf Kussmaul (1822–1902), Theodor von Dusch

Theodor von Dusch

Theodor von Dusch was a German physician who was the native of Karlsruhe. He was the son of Baden statesman Alexander von Dusch ....

 (1824-1890) and Otto Leichtenstern

Otto Michael Ludwig Leichtenstern

Otto Michael Ludwig Leichtenstern was a German internist born in Ingolstadt.In 1869 he received his doctorate from the University of Munich, later working as an assistant of clinical medicine in Munich under Karl von Pfeufer and Joseph von Lindwurm...

 (1845–1900).

Karl Pfeufer is remembered for his collaboration with Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle (1809–1885), which began in the early 1840s at Zurich. The two doctors are credited as forerunners of German scientific medicine, and were pioneers in their attempts to create a synthesis between laboratory and clinic. In 1884 they founded a journal on "rational medicine" called Zeitschrift für rationelle Medizin, which was to become one of the more important medical journals in the German language

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

. Pfeufer would maintain written correspondence with Henle until his death in 1869.

Another publication by Pfeufer was an 1837 treatise on the cholera

Cholera

Cholera is an infection of the small intestine that is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The main symptoms are profuse watery diarrhea and vomiting. Transmission occurs primarily by drinking or eating water or food that has been contaminated by the diarrhea of an infected person or the feces...

 epidemic at Mittenwald

Mittenwald

Mittenwald is a German municipality in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in Bavaria.-Geography:Mittenwald is located approx. 16 kilometers to the south-east of Garmisch-Partenkirchen...

, titled Bericht über die Cholera-Epidemie in Mittenwald.