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Dec 01, 1824 Prague, Czech Republic Died on 02 Mar 1882 (aged 57)
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About Adalbert Duchek
- Adalbert Duchek (Czech: Vojtech Duchek; December 1, 1824 – March 2, 1882) was a Czech internist and pathologist who was a native of Prague. In 1848 he received his medical doctorate at Prague, later becoming a professor at the medical-surgical school in Lemberg (1855).
- Shortly afterwards he served as 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 Škoda (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 an excellent teacher and diagnostician, remembered for his investigations of scurvy.
- In Vienna he was editor of medical yearbooks (1861–70) and of the weekly magazine issued by the K.K.
- Gesellschaft der Ärzte zu Wien (Royal Society of Physicians at Vienna).
