Pruner was born on in Pfreimd, Germany, on March 8, 1808.[1] His father was Ignace Brunner, a civil servant. His mother was Catherine Hochler, the daughter of a municipal councillor.[1]
In 1826, Pruner entered the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.[1] He began studying medicine there the following year, where he became an assistant to Ernest von Grossi, a specialist in experimental medicine.[1] In 1830, Pruner received a Doctor of Medicine.[1]
In 1831, Pruner went to Paris, France, to continue studying medicine.[1] There, he met French physician and psychiatrist Étienne Pariset.[1] The same year, Pruner joined K. M. von Hügel on a trip traveling to India, Palestine, Syria, Egypt, and Greece, where they observed cholera and plague epidemics.[1] In Jerusalem, they studied the treatment of leprosy.[1]
In September 1831, Pruner was in Alexandria, Egypt.[1] He was offered a position at the medical school at Abu Za’bal, where he became the chair of anatomy and physiology.[1]
In 1832, Pruner returned to Munich, Germany.[1]
In 1833, Pruner traveled to Malta and Italy.[1] He studied ophthalmology in Pavia, Italy.[1] The same year he returned to Egypt to become the director of a military hospital near Cairo.[1]
In 1835, Pruner traveled to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to help fight a cholera epidemic.[1]
In 1836, he was appointed the director of military hospitals in Cairo.[1] He was later named professor of ophthalmology at Cairo.[1]
In 1849, Abbas I of Egypt made Pruner his personal physician, giving him the title Bey.[1] He resigned from his position in 1860.[1]
In 1865, Pruner served as president of the Société d'Anthropologie de Paris.[1]
In 1872, Pruner moved to Pisa, Italy. He would live there for ten years before dying of an illness on September 29, 1882.[1]
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