Carl Rüedi
Carl Rüedi (April 21 (or 23?), 1848 – June 17, 1901) 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 (1887) as "the good genius of the English in his frosty mountains".
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| Alias (AKA) | Rüedi Carl (in German); Rüedi Karl (in German); Ruedi Carl (in English); Ruedi Karl (in English) |
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| Birth date | April 21, 1848 |
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| Date of death | June 17, 1901 |
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