Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach

German surgeon

Date of Birth: 01-Feb-1792

Place of Birth: Königsberg

Date of Death: 11-Nov-1847

Profession: physician, surgeon, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach

  • Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach (1 February 1792 – 11 November 1847) was a German surgeon.
  • He was born in Königsberg and died in Berlin. Dieffenbach specialized in skin transplantation and plastic surgery.
  • His work in rhinoplastic and maxillofacial surgery established many modern techniques of reconstructive surgery.
  • His endeavours comprehended subcutaneous operations such as tenotomy, the surgical division of a tendon.
  • Before the discovery of blood typing and blood matching, Dr.
  • Dieffenbach researched blood transfusion, about which he published Die Transfusion des Blutes und die Infusion der Arzneien in die Blutgefässe (1828).
  • In 1839, Dieffenbach performed the first successful myotomy for the treatment of strabismus on a seven-year-old boy with esotropia.Originally, the student J.F.
  • Dieffenbach studied theology at the universities at Rostock and Greifswald.
  • From 1813 to 1815, he volunteered as a soldier in the Befreiungskriege (Napoleonic Wars) as a Jäger.
  • From 1816 to 1820 he studied medicine at the University of Königsberg, then relocated to Bonn as an assistant to Philipp Franz von Walther.
  • Following visits to Paris and Montpellier, he received his doctorate at the University of Würzburg in 1822.
  • Afterwards, he settled in Berlin, where he focused his attention on plastic and reconstructive surgery.
  • In 1824, he married Johanna Motherby.
  • In 1832, he became an associate professor at the university of Berlin, and in 1840 became director of the Clinical Institute for Surgery at Charité Hospital.
  • After his death in 1847, Bernhard von Langenbeck (1810–1887) replaced Dieffenbach as director of surgery.

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