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ERNST VON BERGMANN, who was one of the most skilful surgeons and commanding personalities in Germany of the last century, was born at Riga on December 16, 1836. He received his medical education at Dorpat, Vienna and Berlin and qualified on November 13, 1860. He commenced his career as assistant in the Dorpat surgical clinic and afterwards served as a medical officer in the Prussian Army in the war with Austria in 1866 and in the Franco -Prussian war in 1870. He was elected professor of surgery at Dorpat in 1871. In 1877, when war broke out between Turkey and Russia, he became consulting surgeon to the Russian Army invading Rumania, and in the treatment of wounds carried out the antiseptic method just introduced by Lister. His activities as a military surgeon, however, were cut short by a severe attack of dysentery, and in 1878 he was appointed professor of surgery and senior surgeon to the Julius Hospital at Wiirzburg. He remained there until 1882, when he succeeded Langenbeck in the chair of surgery at Berlin. In 1887 he attended the Emperor Frederick in his last illness, when an unfortunate dispute as to the correct diagnosis and treatment arose between the German surgeon and Morell Mackenzie, the well-known London laryngo-logist and author of “Frederick the Noble”.
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Ernst von Bergmann. Nature 138, 1003 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1381003b0
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