Heinrich Obersteiner is remembered in medicine for work that altered practice rather than merely argument.
The record lists Heinrich Obersteiner as Austrian neurologist (1847–1922).
Heinrich Obersteiner was born at Vienna in 1847. His recorded nationality is Austria. He trained at University of Vienna.
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.
Most medical progress is invisible: it shows up as an illness that no longer kills anyone.
That the work was done from Austria matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Heinrich Obersteiner died in 1922, aged 75. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Vienna
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