Joseph Wattmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Joseph Wattmann

Austrian surgeon

Date of Birth: 06-Mar-1789

Place of Birth: Ebensee, Upper Austria, Austria

Date of Death: 14-Sep-1866

Profession: surgeon

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Joseph Wattmann

  • Joseph Wattmann von Maëlcamp-Beaulieu (6 March 1789, Oberlangbath – 14 September 1866) was an Austrian surgeon. He studied medicine at the surgical academy associated with Vienna General Hospital, afterwards working as a physician and surgeon in Wels.
  • He then served as an assistant to Vincenz Ritter von Kern (1760–1829) in Vienna.
  • In 1816 he was appointed professor of theoretical and practical surgery at the Lyceum in Laibach. From 1818 he was a professor of surgery and chief surgeon at the Heilgegeist hospital in Innsbruck.
  • Following a scientific journey to Italy, he was appointed professor of practical surgery and director of the surgical institute in Vienna (1824).
  • Here, his students included Franz Schuh (1804–1865) and Johann von Dumreicher (1815–1880).Wattmann was a pioneer of lithotripsy in Austria, publishing a detailed account of the procedure in the treatise Ãœber die Steinzerbohrung und ihr Verhältniß zum Blasenschnitte.
  • Also, he made important contributions towards the treatment and understanding of air embolisms.A thoroughfare in the Hietzing district of Vienna, the Wattmanngasse, is named in his honor.

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