Eduard Albert (20 January 1841, Žamberk, Bohemia – 26 September 1900, ŽamberkDeath and burial church record
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working under the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Life

Eduard Albert was born in Žamberk, Bohemia in the family of

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František Albert and Kateřina Albertová (née Zdobnická). Further famous persons from their family were also František Albert (1856–1923), surgeon and

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(1858–1940), writer and Kateřina Thomová (1861–1952), notable creatress of amateur theatre in Žamberk and founder of municipal museum in Žamberk. Eduard Albert studied medicine at the

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, where he earned his doctorate in 1867. At

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he was a student of Salomon Stricker (1834–1898) and

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(1815–1880). From 1873 to 1881, he was a professor of surgery in Innsbruck, 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 (1847–1902). Albert is remembered for pioneer research in the field of

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surgery, in particular work involving tarsal and

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for

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and recurring joint

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. Among his better-known students were Adolf Lorenz (1854–1946), "The Bloodless Surgeon of Vienna",

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Emerich Ullmann (1861-1937) and Antonio Grossich (1849–1926), who in 1908 introduced a procedure for applying the operative field with 10%

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(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

Image:Žamberk,_hřbitov_a_kaple_svatého_Vojtěcha.jpg, Chapel of Saint Vojtěch´s in Žamberk´s graveyard, built at expense of E. Albert Image:Eduard albert grave.JPG, Grave of Eduard Albert in a cemetery in

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References

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