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Oswald Kohts


Wilhelm Ernst Oswald Kohts (31 January 1844 in Berent, West Prussia – 1912) was a German physician and pediatrician.

He studied medicine at the Universities of Jena, Königsberg and Berlin. From 1870 he served as an assistant to Ernst Viktor von Leyden at Königsberg, and in 1872 began work as a secondary physician at the polyclinic in Strassburg. Here, he became an associate professor and director of the children's clinic. In 1878 he was appointed director of the university polyclinic. Among his students and assistants at Strassburg were dermatologist Eduard Arning (1855-1936) and pediatrician Ferdinand Siegert (1865-1946).

In 1886, he became a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina.

Kohts was the author of several monographs that were included in Carl Gerhardt's Handbuch der Kinderkrankheiten. The following are some of his principal writings:


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