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Place of Birth: Munich, Bavaria, Germany
About Karl Thiersch
- Karl Thiersch, also spelled Carl Thiersch (20 April 1822 – 28 April 1895), was a German surgeon born in Munich.
- His father was educationist Friedrich Thiersch, his father-in-law was renowned chemist Justus von Liebig.
- One brother, Ludwig, was an influential painter, while another, Heinrich Wilhelm Josias, was a theologian. He received his doctorate from the University of Munich in 1843, where from 1848 to 1854 he served as prosector of pathological anatomy.
- Afterwards he became a professor of surgery at the Universities of Erlangen (from 1854) and Leipzig (from 1867).
- He was a medical surgeon in the First War of Schleswig under Louis Stromeyer (1804–1876), and a medical consultant during the Franco-Prussian War. In 1865 Thiersch demonstrated the epithelial origin of carcinoma, which put him in opposition to the doctrine of Rudolf Virchow in that a carcinoma could originate from connective tissue.
- Thiersch's findings were thus agreed upon by research done by Wilhelm von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836–1921) at the University of Breslau.
- He is also credited with modifying Joseph Lister's technique of antiseptic sterilization by substituting salicylic acid for carbolic acid.
- In addition, he made contributions involving wound healing treatment and in research of phosphorus necrosis of the jaw. His name is associated with "Thiersch's graft", a method of split-skin grafting that he developed.
- This graft is sometimes referred to as an Ollier–Thiersch graft (named with French surgeon Louis Léopold Ollier).
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