Siegfried Oberndorfer practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Siegfried Oberndorfer as German physician (1876–1944).
Siegfried Oberndorfer was born at Munich in 1876. His recorded nationality is German Reich. He trained at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
The recorded fields of work are medicine and pathology.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from German Reich matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Siegfried Oberndorfer died in 1944, aged 68. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fields: medicine and pathology
