Johannes Sobotta practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Johannes Sobotta as German anatomist (1869-1945).
Johannes Sobotta was born at Berlin in 1869. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
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 Bonn and University of Würzburg.
The recorded fields of work are anatomy, medicine and human anatomy.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
Recognition followed: Goethe Medal for Art and Science (1944).
That the work was done from Germany matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Johannes Sobotta died in 1945, aged 76. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Goethe Medal for Art and Science — 1944
- Held posts at University of Bonn and University of Würzburg
- Fields: anatomy, medicine and human anatomy
