Adalbert Duchek

Adalbert Duchek (December 1, 1824 - March 2, 1882) was an Austrian internist and pathologist who was a native of Prague.

In 1848 he received his medical doctorate at Prague, and in 1855 became a professor at the medical-surgical school in Lemberg. Afterwards he was a professor at the University of Heidelberg (1856-58), and in 1858 became a professor at Josephs Academy in Vienna. In 1871 he replaced Josef Skoda (1805-1881) at the medical faculty in Vienna. After Duchek's death in 1882, his position at Vienna was filled by Carl Nothnagel (1841-1905).

Duchek was considered and excellent teacher and diagnostician, remembered for his investigations of scurvy. At Vienna he was co-editor of the "Medizinischen Jahrbücher", and the journal "K.K. Gesellschaft der Ärzte zu Wien" (Royal Society of Physicians at Vienna).

Selected publications

* "Die Krankheiten der Kreislaufs-, Athmungs-, Verdauungs-, der Geschlechts- und Harnorgane", (The Diseases of the Circulatory, Respiratory, Digestive, Sexual and Urinary Organs) (in Handbook of special Pathology and Therapy, Volume I, Erlangen 1862)
* "Scorbut" (Scurvy); in Pitha-Billroth's "Handbuch der allgemeinen und speciellen Chirurgie" I, 2. Abt. A, Erlangen 1876)

References

* [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.zeno.org/Pagel-1901/A/Duchek,%2BAdalbert&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=9&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Duchek,%2BAdalbert%2522%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG Zeno.org, Biography translated from German]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=Do8BRL04LdEC&pg=PA703&lpg=PA703&dq=Duchek+scurvy&source=web&ots=b50Ih_U0GB&sig=WMHkkaUgMcJM4vcfvZxH8XVs23k&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result Practical Dietetics By William Gilman Thompson]