- Karl Kaspar von Siebold
Karl Kaspar von Siebold (
November 4 ,1736 -April 3 ,1807 ) was a Germansurgeon andobstetrician who was a native ofNideggen . From 1760 to 1763 he studied medicine inWürzburg , and afterwards furthered his medical education inParis ,London andLeiden . In 1769 he became a professor ofanatomy , surgery andobstetrics at theUniversity of Würzburg . He remained a professor at Würzburg until his death in 1807. He was grandfather to Germannaturalist Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866).In 1776 Siebold was appointed as head physician ("Oberwundarzt") of the Juliusspital in Würzburg. Under his leadership at Juliusspital, new surgical techniques were introduced, a regimen of
hygiene was established, and renovation of the "Theatrum Anatomicum" took place. In 1805, the Juliusspital reportedly had the first modernoperating room in the world.Some of Siebold's better known students were
Franz Kaspar Hesselbach (1759-1816),Johann Friedrich Meckel (1781-1833) and Nicolaus Anton Friedreich (1761-1836).References
* [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.siebold-gymnasium.de/infos/schule-mit-tradition/die-famile-von-siebold/carl-caspar-von-siebold&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=6&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DSiebold%2BJuliusspital%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN German Biography translated by Google]
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