In the history of medicine, Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben as Austrian psychiatrist, poet and philosopher (1806-1849).
Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben was born at Vienna in 1806. His recorded nationality is Austria. He trained at University of Vienna and Tintern Grammar.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at University of Vienna.
The recorded fields of work are psychiatry and surgery.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from Austria matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben died in 1849, aged 43. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Vienna
- Fields: psychiatry and surgery
