===== Richard Wunsch (1869-1911) =====
[[wpde>Richard Wunsch]] was born in [[wp>Silesia]] in 1869. He studied medicine, was an assistant to [[wp>Rudolf Virchow]] and in 1901 met the physician [[wp>Erwin Baelz]], who taught and practiced in Japan. Bälz got Wunsch the position of personal physician to the Korean Emperor [[wp>Gojong_of_Goryeo|Kojong]]. He rendered outstanding services in Korea, particularly in the fight against [[wp>cholera]]. In 1905, he moved from Seoul to Tōkyō to succeed Bälz, but only found employment there as a doctor at the British embassy and therefore accepted a position in the German colony of [[wp>Qingdao]] in 1908. He died there of [[wp>scrub typhus]] in 1911.

The medical cutlery that Richard Wunsch used at the Korean imperial court was registered as a cultural treasure and exhibited at the Tŏksu Palace in Seoul in 2011.