Eduard Albert (20 January 1841 – 26 September 1900) was a

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surgeon In medicine, a surgeon is a medical doctor who performs surgery. Even though there are different traditions in different times and places, a modern surgeon is a licensed physician and received the same medical training as physicians before spec ...

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and

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Life

Eduard Albert was born on 20 January 1841in

Žamberk Žamberk (; ) is a town in Ústí nad Orlicí District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 5,800 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Monument zon ...

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, in the family of

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František Albert and Kateřina Albertová (née Zdobnická). He married in 1868 with Marie Pietschová and they had two children, but one of them died in early childhood. Further notable people from their family were also František Albert (1856–1923), surgeon and writer; Tereza Svatová (1858–1940), writer; and Kateřina Thomová (1861–1952), creatress of amateur theatre in Žamberk and founder of municipal museum in Žamberk. Eduard Albert studied medicine at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (, ) is a public university, public research university in Vienna, Austria. Founded by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, Duke Rudolph IV in 1365, it is the oldest university in the German-speaking world and among the largest ...

, where he earned his doctorate in 1867. At

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he was a student of

Salomon Stricker Salomon Stricker (1 January 1834 – 2 April 1898) was a pathologist and histologist from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Career Stricker was born in Waag-Neustadtl (, now Nové Mesto nad Váhom, Slovakia). He studied at the University of Vienna, a ...

(1834–1898) and Johann von Dumreicher (1815–1880). From 1873 to 1881, he was a professor of surgery in

Innsbruck Innsbruck (; ) is the capital of Tyrol (federal state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns in Austria, fifth-largest city in Austria. On the Inn (river), River Inn, at its junction with the Wipptal, Wipp Valley, which provides access to the ...

, where he introduced mandatory

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treatment for wounds. In 1881, Albert attained the chair of surgery in Vienna, where he remained until 1900. He was succeeded at Innsbruck in 1881 by

Carl Nicoladoni Carl Nicoladoni (23 April 1847 – 4 December 1902) was an Austrian surgeon born in Vienna. He received his medical doctorate from the University of Vienna, and was later a professor of surgery at the Universities of Innsbruck (from 1881) and Gra ...

(1847–1902). Albert died of a

stroke Stroke is a medical condition in which poor cerebral circulation, blood flow to a part of the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: brain ischemia, ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and intracranial hemorrhage, hemor ...

on 26 September 1900 in Žamberk. Albert is remembered for pioneer research in the field of

orthopedic Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics ( alternative spelling orthopaedics) is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system. Orthopedic surgeons use both surgical and nonsurgical means to treat musculoskeletal ...

surgery, in particular work involving tarsal and

shoulder The human shoulder is made up of three bones: the clavicle (collarbone), the scapula (shoulder blade), and the humerus (upper arm bone) as well as associated muscles, ligaments and tendons. The articulations between the bones of the shoulder m ...

arthrodesis Arthrodesis, also known as artificial ankylosis or syndesis, is the artificial induction of joint ossification between two bones by surgery. This is done to relieve intractable pain in a joint which cannot be managed by pain medication, splin ...

for

paralysis Paralysis (: paralyses; also known as plegia) is a loss of Motor skill, motor function in one or more Skeletal muscle, muscles. Paralysis can also be accompanied by a loss of feeling (sensory loss) in the affected area if there is sensory d ...

and recurring joint

dislocations In materials science, a dislocation or Taylor's dislocation is a linear crystallographic defect or irregularity within a crystal structure that contains an abrupt change in the arrangement of atoms. The movement of dislocations allow atoms to sli ...

. Among his better-known students were

Adolf Lorenz Adolf Lorenz (21 April 1854, Vidnava – 12 February 1946, Sankt Andrä-Wördern) was an Austrian orthopedic surgeon. Career He studied medicine at the University of Vienna and subsequently worked as an assistant to surgeon Eduard Albert (1841� ...

(1854–1946), "The Bloodless Surgeon of Vienna",

nephrologist Nephrology is a specialty for both adult internal medicine and pediatric medicine that concerns the study of the kidneys, specifically normal kidney function (renal physiology) and kidney disease (renal pathophysiology), the preservation of kid ...

Emerich Ullmann (1861–1937) and

Antonio Grossich Antonio Grossich (7 June 1849 – 1 October 1926) was an Italian surgeon from Fiume (now Rijeka, Croatia), a politician, and a writer. Born in Draguć (Draguccio d'Istria), halfway between Buzet (Pinguente) and Pazin (Pisino), Istria, Grossich ...

(1849–1926), who in 1908 introduced a procedure for applying the operative field with 10%

tincture of iodine Tincture of iodine, iodine tincture, or weak iodine solution is an antiseptic. It is usually 2% elemental iodine, along with potassium iodide or sodium iodide, dissolved in a mixture of ethanol and water. Tincture solutions are characterized by ...

(at first in emergency surgeries, later on for all types of surgery).Google Books
Pacific Medical Journal, Volume 55

Works

* ''Diagnostika chirurgických nemocí'' (1876) * ''Učebnice chirurgie a nauky operační'' (1877) * ''Paměti Žamberské'' (1889)

Gallery

Žamberk,_hřbitov_a_kaple_svatého_Vojtěcha.jpg, Chapel of Saint Adalbert in

's graveyard, built at expense of E. Albert Eduard albert grave.JPG, Grave of Eduard Albert in a cemetery in

References

External links

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