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01.06.2004 | Mastery in Surgery
European surgical community: the unification of surgical sciences anticipated by German–Polish surgeons in the 19th century
verfasst von:
Andrzej L. Komorowski, Wojciech M. Wysocki, Andrzej Wysocki
Erschienen in:
Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery
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Ausgabe 3/2004
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Excerpt
Nineteenth century Europe is considered the birthplace of modern surgery. For many young surgeons of that era, to learn surgery meant to travel. This mobility resulted in a complicated and frequently surprising network of scientific relationships. We would like to present four surgeons, linked in different ways by master–pupil relationships, who travelled around Europe in the search for surgical perfection. Three of the surgeons were professors of surgery at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, one of the oldest in Europe, founded in 1364. But while Johann Rust moved to Berlin to become a mentor to Johann Diffenbach, so Jan Mikulicz and Ludwik Rydygier went looking for mentorship from the successor of Diffenbach, Bernhard von Langenbeck, considered the father of European surgery. …