Hermann Askan Demme, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hermann Askan Demme

German-Swiss physician

Date of Birth: 28-Aug-1802

Place of Birth: Altenburg, Thuringia, Germany

Date of Death: 18-Jan-1867

Profession: physician, surgeon, university teacher

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Hermann Askan Demme (* 28 August 1802 in Altenburg; † 18 January 1867 in Bern) was a German-Swiss physician. Demme was the son of Hermann Gottfried, Generalsuperintendent of Sachsen-Altenburg.
At first, he studied philosophy and theology in Jena and Berlin.
1822 he entered the Jenaischen Burschenschaft.
He finished his studies 1830 and became assistant to Johann Lukas Schönlein.
1831 he was a military doctor in Warschau, 1832 he visited the United States of America. In 1833, Demme married Marie Lucie Elisabeth Auguste Diruf (1808-1882) from Heidelberg.
They had one daughter and three sons.
In the same year, he became professor for anatomy at the University of Zurich and 1834 he became professor at the University of Bern.
1847 he was the first in the German-speaking world to perform surgery using ether for anesthesia.



Alternative names	f. dietler; j. friedrich dietler; dietler; j. f. dietler; Joh. Friedrich Dietler; johann friedrich dietler; Joh. Friedr. Dietler
Description	Swiss painter
Date of birth/death	4 February 1804	4 May 1874
Location of birth/death	Solothurn SO	Bern
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