Moriz Heider (21 June 1816, Vienna – 29 July 1866, Vienna) was an Austrian dentist born in

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. He studied medicine in

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, where he was an assistant to

Georg Carabelli Georg Carabelli, Edler von Lunkaszprie (Squire of Lunkaszprie) (Hungarian: Carabelli György) (December 11, 1787, Pest – October 24, 1842, Vienna) was a prominent Hungarian dentist and professor of dental surgery in Vienna. He held a minor nob ...

(1787-1842). In 1858 he became an associate professor at the

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. Heider was a pioneer of modern

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, being remembered for introducing

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(''Galvanokaustik'') into dentistry. He is also credited for being the first dentist in a

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country to use a procedure called ''Goldhämmerfüllungen'', a technique used for installing gold fillings. In 1861 he founded the ''Vereins österreichischer Zahnärzte'' (Austrian Association of Dentists), known today as the ''Österreichische Gesellschaft für Zahn-, Mund- und Kieferheilkunde'' or ÖGZMK (Austrian Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery). With histopathologist Carl Wedl (1815-1891), he was co-author of the highly regarded ''Atlas zur Pathologie der Zähne'', a work later translated into English and published as "Atlas to the Pathology of the Teeth". After Heider's death in 1866, his pioneer work in dentistry was continued by his colleague

Adolf Zsigmondy Dr. Adolf Zsigmondy, aka Adolph Zsigmondy (24 April 1816 in Pozsony (german: Pressburg), Kingdom of Hungary – 23 June 1880 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary) was a dentist of Hungarian origin who lived in Vienna. He is best known for inventing the ide ...

(1816-1880).

References

translated biography
@ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

External links

ÖGZMK
Österreichische Gesellschaft für Zahn-, Mund- und Kieferheilkunde Website. 1816 births 1866 deaths 19th-century Austrian people Austrian dentists Academics of the University of Vienna Physicians from Vienna 19th-century dentists {{Austria-med-bio-stub