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PROF. EDUARD ALBERT, a pioneer of modern surgery in Austria, was born at Sznfterberg in Bohemia on January 20, 1841. He received his medical education at the University of Vienna, where he studied under Hyrtl, Skoda, Brücke, Oppolzer and Rokitansky. After qualifying in 1867 he became assistant to Prof. Johann Dumreicker, professor of surgery in the Vienna Faculty. In 1872 he was appointed professor of surgery at Innsbruck where he remained for eight years and then succeeded Dumreicher at Vienna. It was here that he gained a European reputation by his introduction of Listerian antisepsis, which Dumreicher had rejected, and attracted a number of students who afterwards became eminent surgeons. Albert was well known in Great Britain, where he was elected an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in July 1900. His principal publications were “Diagnostik der chirurgischen Krankheiten”, “Lehrbuch der Chirurgie” and “Beiträge zur Geschichte der Chirurgie”. He died on September 20, 1900.
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Prof. Eduard Albert. Nature 147, 85 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147085c0
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