KREBS, FRANK HUGO – Biographies – History of Homeopathy

REBS, FRANK HUGO, M. D., of Boston, Mass., was born in Sackish Silesia, Prussia, on December 3d, 1823,
and is the youngest son of Weastrel Krebs, proprietor. Losing his mother when only seven years of age, his father sold his estate and moved to Glatz
where he attended the town school until his fourteenth year. He then was apprenticed to a furrier, with whom he served three years. In order to perfect
himself in his trade, he traveled two years, visiting the principal cities of Germany. When nineteen years of age, he entered the military and served in
the artillery in Breslau. He was one of three who where chosen from his company to enter the brigade school to attain a high military education, -an
arrangement designed to cultivate an ardor for a military career,- but after an attendance of two years, he took his discharge. During his connection
with the military, his father died, and left thus, very much to his own guidance, he spent much of his time in the study of anatomy, visiting the
dissecting rooms and attending medical lectures.

     Leaving Prussia, he visited Russia, where, during his sojourn, he visited Odessa, the principal cities
of southern Russia, and the Caucasus. Arriving at Tiflis, he made the acquaintance of Dr. Von Andrejentsky, Surgeon General, and physician to the Prince
Woronzow, Governor of the Caucasian provinces. This acquaintance was probably the means of confirming his interest in medical studies. Dr. Von
Andrejentsky entrusted to his care a large estate called Dreux, nearly ten miles from Tiflis. While in charge of this estate, he had frequent
opportunities of prescribing for the sick among the peasantry, and, meeting with much success in his treatment of diseases, he made up his mind to
devote himself exclusively to the study of medicine. After a residence of eighteen months at Dreux, he resigned his situation and went to Odessa. In
February, 1849, he left in the steamer for Constantinople, with the intention of visiting Palestine. In Constantinople he made the acquaintance of Dr.
Clark, of Edinburgh, who advised him to sail immediately for America. Travelling with Dr. Clark in Greece and Italy, he reached Palermo, and on the 9th
of May, set sail for Boston, where he arrived on the 16th of June. After a journey of six weeks in the West, he returned to Boston, where he commenced
the practice of medicine. Meeting frequently with homœopathic physicians,-many of them men of high culture, -he was led into a careful examination of
the system as founded by Hahnemann, and at the expiration of one year, adopted the system, and commenced practicing upon it exclusively. His knowledge
of the idioms of the English tongue was as yet very limited, and as soon as he attained a sufficient acquaintance with these, he entered the Harvard
Medical School, where he graduated in 1859.

     In 1869, he revisited his native place, and devoted himself, in Berlin and Vienna, to the study of
gynecology and obstetrics, subjects in which he had always bad a very deep interest. Dr. Krebs is recognized as a physician of considerable talents.

Source : Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons By
Egbert Cleave