Camillo Wiethe

{{Short description|Austrian otorhinolaryngologist}}

Camillo Wiethe (24 May 1889, Vienna – 10 July 1949, Vienna) was an Austrian otorhinolaryngologist.

He received his medical doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1913, and later served as a front-line physician during World War I. From 1918 to 1936, he was a physician at the clinic for otorhinolaryngology in Vienna, and in the meantime qualified as a university lecturer (1933). From 1936 to 1938, he was head of the department for otorhinolaryngology at Merchant's Hospital (Wiener Kaufmannschaft), and from 1938 to 1945 maintained a private practice on the Reichsratsstraße. In 1945 he became an associate professor and director of the second university clinic for otorhinolaryngology in Vienna.{{Cite web|url=https://gedenkbuch.univie.ac.at/en/page/1/person/camillo-wiethe|title=Memorial book|website=gedenkbuch.univie.ac.at}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QnrPXZ_eT44C&dq=%22Wiethe%2C+Camillo%22+1889&pg=PA1479|title=Handbuch österreichischer Autorinnen und Autoren jüdischer Herkunft: 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert|first1=Österreichische Nationalbibliothek|last1=Wien|first2=Susanne|last2=Blumesberger|first3=Michael|last3=Doppelhofer|first4=Gabriele|last4=Mauthe|date=December 22, 2011|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=9783110949001 |via=Google Books}}

With Austrian dermatologist Erich Urbach, he described a rare, congenital lipoid storage disease that was to become known as Urbach–Wiethe disease.{{Cite web|url=http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/924.html|title=Urbach-Wiethe disease|website=www.whonamedit.com}} In 1955 the thoroughfare Wiethestraße (Vienna) was named in his honor.