Ernst von Bergmann

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German surgeon

Ernst Gustav Benjamin von Bergmann was a Baltic German surgeon. He was the first physician to introduce heat sterilisation of surgical instruments and is known as a pioneer of aseptic surgery. Wikipedia

Born: December 16, 1836, Riga, Latvia

Died: March 25, 1907 (age 70 years), Wiesbaden, Germany

Books: Surgery of the alimentary tract, tr. and ed. by W.T. Bull, E.M. Foote, C.P. Flint and W. Martin, Surgery of the extremities, tr. and ed. by W.T. Bull and J.B. Solley, Surgery of the neck, thorax and spinal column, tr. and ed. by W. T. Bull and C.P. Flint, and more

Children: Gustav von Bergmann

Education: University of Tartu

Grandparent: Benjamin von Bergmann

Nationality: German