Alfred Kast, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alfred Kast

German internist

Date of Birth: 25-Jul-1856

Place of Birth: Achern, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Date of Death: 07-Jan-1903

Profession: physician, university teacher, internist

Nationality: German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Alfred Kast (25 July 1856 in Illenau, near Achern – 7 January 1903) was a German internist. He studied medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg, Freiburg and Leipzig, earning his doctorate in 1879.
He served as an assistant to Wilhelm Heinrich Erb (1840–1921) in Heidelberg, Julius Friedrich Cohnheim (1839–1884) in Leipzig, and from 1881 was a clinical assistant to Christian Bäumler (1836–1933) at Freiburg.
Here he also worked in the physiological-chemical institute.
In 1886, he became an associate professor, followed by a directorship at Eppendorf Hospital in Hamburg (1888).
He 1892 he was named professor of internal medicine at the University of Breslau. Kast was instrumental in introducing phenacetin and the sulphonal group of drugs into medicine.
His name is associated with "Kast’s syndrome", a condition synonymous to Mafucci syndrome.