Albert Friedrich Veiel (8 June 1806 – 2 August 1874) was a German

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who was a native of

Ludwigsburg Ludwigsburg (; Swabian: ''Ludisburg'') is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar. It is the largest and primary city of the Ludwigsburg district with about 88,000 inhabitants. It is s ...

. He studied at the Universities of

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and

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, and in 1829 earned his medical doctorate. In 1837 at

Cannstatt Bad Cannstatt, also called Cannstatt (until July 23, 1933) or Kannstadt (until 1900), is one of the outer stadtbezirke, or city boroughs, of Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Bad Cannstatt is the oldest and most populous of Stuttgart's ...

, he founded the first in-patient dermatological clinic in Germany. The clinic was called the ''Heilanstalt für Flechtenkranke'', and with orthopedist Jakob Heine (1800–1879) and others, Veiel was a catalyst in making Cannstatt an important center for medical treatment. The clinic attracted numerous celebrities and members of European aristocracy.

Selected publications

* ''Grundzüge der Behandlung der Flechten in der Heilanstalt in Cannstatt'', (Fundamentals of treatment at the Flechtenkranke Sanitarium in Cannstatt), (1843); Stuttgart. * ''Die Mineralquellen in Cannstatt'', (

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in Cannstatt), (1852); Stuttgart. * ''Mittheilungen über die Behandlung der chronischen Hautkrankheiten in der Heilanstalt für Flechtenkranke in Cannstatt'', (On the treatment of chronic

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in the Sanitarium for Flechtenkranke at Cannstatt), (1862); Stuttgart. * ''Der Kurort Cannstatt und seine Mineralquellen'' (The Cannstatt spa and its mineral springs), (1867).Most widely held works by Albert Friedrich Veiel
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* ''This article incorporates translated text of an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia''. 1806 births 1874 deaths People from Ludwigsburg University of Tübingen alumni German dermatologists {{Germany-med-bio-stub