Christian Albert Theodor Billroth (* 26 August 1829 in mountains on "† 6 February 1894 in Opatija) was one of the most important surgeons 19. Century and generally one regards as the founders of the modern belly surgery and pioneer of the laryngeal surgery.

Life

It studied grab forest at the seriousness Moritz Arndt university. From 1853-1860 he worked to the There he was an assistant with Bernhard von Langenbeck. With him it habilitierte itself in the subjects surgery and pathological anatomy. 1860 it followed a call after the surgical chair to Zurich. Thus it rejected a simultaneous call as a full professor for pathology after grab forest. In its time in Zurich it wrote its well-known pathological-anatomical work. In the year 1867 he became a surgeon of the Viennese medical school and directors/conductors of the second surgical hospital generally hospital in Vienna. In addition he taught as a professor of the surgery at the University of Vienna and in Zurich.

Billroth are to be owed direct a set of milestones of the surgery, among them to 1871 the first (distance of the esophagus) and 1873 the first Laryngektomie (distance of the larynx). Most well-known however its - after many missed attempts - is first successful gastrectomy (partial distance of the stomach), which succeeded to it on 29 January 1881 with a stomach cancer patient. In the consequence two forms of the gastrectomy, Billroth operations (Billroth I and Billroth II) were designated after it. Also a waterproof federation material carries the name Billroth batiste after it.

Apart from its activity as a surgeon Billroth researched also in the area of the microbiology. The discovery of the Streptokokken succeeded to it in the year 1874, when it researched after the cause of Wundinfektionen.

Billroth, whose operational success not least by the introduction of the Antisepsis had been made possible, was a promoter of the hospital and nursing for the sick nature. The establishment of the Rudolfinerhauses 1879, a hospital with Krankenpfleger</b>schule was therefore only consistent.

Additionally to its large successes in the surgery Theodor Billroth was also a passionate musician, a Violinist, and a close friend of Johannes Brahms and Eduard Hanslick.

It is buried on the Viennese central cemetery.

Nachleben

The Austrian society for surgery writes annually for the best scientific work in the area of the clinical and experimental surgery and their frontiers the Theodor Billroth price out.

Into buildings lain when suppl. approximately, in which the society of the physicians in Vienna has their seat, "Billrothhaus is called "

See also

• History of the medicine
• List of the important medical profession and physicians

Related links

• Entry with whonamedit.com with bibliography (English)

• Theodor Billroth price

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