Education
He studied medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg, Freiburg and Leipzig, earning his doctorate in 1879.
internist physician university professor
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. 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.