Camillo Wiethe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Austrian otorhinolaryngologist
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Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
About Camillo Wiethe
- Camillo Wiethe (24 May 1889, Vienna – 10 July 1949, Vienna) was an Austrian otorhinolaryngologist. He received his medical doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1913, and later served as a front-line physician during World War I.
- From 1918 to 1936, he was a physician at the clinic for otorhinolaryngology in Vienna, and in the meantime qualified as a university lecturer (1933).
- From 1936 to 1938, he was head of the department for otorhinolaryngology at Merchant's Hospital (Wiener Kaufmannschaft), and from 1938 to 1945 maintained a private practice on the Reichsratsstraße.
- In 1945 he became an associate professor and director of the second university clinic for otorhinolaryngology in Vienna.With Austrian dermatologist Erich Urbach, he described a rare, congenital lipoid storage disease that was to become known as Urbach–Wiethe disease.
- In 1955 the thoroughfare Wiethestraße (Vienna) was named in his honor.
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