Cajetan von Textor (28 December 1782 – 7 August 1860) was a German

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born in the Ebersberg district of

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. From 1804 to 1808 he studied at the University of Landshut, where he was a pupil of Philipp Franz von Walther (1782–1849). He spent the next few years on an extended educational journey throughout Europe, where he studied with Alexis Boyer (1757–1833) in

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(1752–1832) in

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and Georg Joseph Beer (1763–1821) in

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. Afterwards he was second physician at the general hospital in

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. In 1816 he was appointed professor of surgery and ''Oberwundarzt'' in the Juliusspital at the

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. In 1832 he was relieved of his duties at

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and banished to the surgical school at

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because of suspicion of political ties to the

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and the Hambach Festival. In 1834 he was reinstated at Würzburg, where he remained for the rest of his career. One of his better known students was

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(1800–1846), inventor of the

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. In the field of surgery, Cajetan von Textor was a specialist of bone and joint operations. Among his publications was a German translation of Alexis Boyer's surgical work titled ''Grundzüge zur Lehre der chirurgischen Operationen'' (1818–1827, 2nd edition 1834–1841).

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@ ''Klinik und Poliklinik für Allgemein-, Viszeral-, Gefäß- und Kinderchirurgie in Würzburg'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Textor, Cajetan von 1782 births 1860 deaths 19th-century German people German surgeons Academic staff of the University of Würzburg German untitled nobility People from Ebersberg (district) Surgeons from the Holy Roman Empire