Carl Rüedi

Physician, Deceased Person

1848 – 1901

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Who was Carl Rüedi?

Carl Rüedi was a Swiss pulmonologist and at his lifetime one of the best-known physicians in Graubünden.

Rüedi rose to fame around the world after having treated the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson in the winters of 1880-81 and 1881-82. Stevenson praised Rüedi in the dedication of his poetry collection Underwoods as "the good genius of the English in his frosty mountains".

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Born
Apr 21, 1848
Davos
Also known as
  • Dr. Carl Rüedi
Nationality
  • Switzerland
Profession
Education
  • Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
Lived in
  • Denver
Died
Jun 17, 1901
Arosa

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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