Eduard Zirm, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eduard Zirm

austrian doctor

Date of Birth: 18-Mar-1863

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 15-Mar-1944

Profession: physician, ophthalmologist

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Eduard Konrad Zirm (18 March 1863 – 15 March 1944) was an ophthalmologist who performed the first successful human full-thickness corneal transplant on 7 December 1905.Zirm was born in Vienna, he studied medicine at the University of Vienna, and ophthalmology at the Eye Clinic there.
After graduation, Zirm became an eye doctor at the Second Eye Clinic in Vienna, then accepted a position at a hospital in Olomouc, Moravia, in 1892.
There he became chief of the new ophthalmology clinic that he helped establish.