Adolphe Wahltuch

Adolphe Wahltuch (19 May 1837, Odessa – 25 November 1907, Manchester) was a Russian-born English physician and chess writer. He was known as a successful practitioner and as a prolific writer of medical works.

Biography Wahltuch was born into a Jewish family in Odessa. He received his M.D. from the University of Kiev in 1860, whereupon he practised for about two years in his native city, and then went to Prague to obtain better clinical experience. At Prague he was a fellow student of Morell Mackenzie. From there, Wahltuch came to London, where he qualified as L.R.C.P. at the Middlesex Hospital in 1863.

Wahltuch then settled in Manchester as a practising physician. He would come to serve as consulting physician of Manchester's Victoria Jewish Hospital, honorary physician of the Hulme Dispensary, and president of the Manchester Clinical Society and of the Manchester Medico-Ethical Association. He was one of the founders of the Manchester Cremation Society, and was a frequent lecturer on hygiene and on scientific and historical subjects.

An avid chess player, Wahltuch edited the chess column in the Manchester Weekly Times, and founded several chess clubs in the city. His son, Victor Wahltuch, would become a well-known chess master.

He died at his residence at Rusholme, Manchester, on 25 November 1907. He was survived by his wife, Anna , and seven children.