In the history of medicine, Karl Otto Weber is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Karl Otto Weber as German surgeon and pathologist (1827-1867).
Karl Otto Weber was born at Frankfurt in 1827. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at University of Bonn.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at Heidelberg University and University of Bonn.
The recorded fields of work are surgery.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from Germany matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Karl Otto Weber died in 1867, aged 40. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Heidelberg University and University of Bonn
- Fields: surgery
