1. August Bier began his residency in 1888 at the surgical clinic at the University of Kiel, under the mentorship of Friedrich von Esmarch.
10 Facts About August Bier
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In 1908, August Bier pioneered the use of intravenous regional anesthesia, a technique which is commonly referred to as a "August Bier block".
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August Bier was elected President of the German Surgical Society in 1911.
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Hugo Stinnes died on 10 April 1924, about a month after August Bier performed a cholecystectomy on him.
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On 24 February 1925, August Bier performed an appendectomy on Friedrich Ebert, the first President of Germany, who had signed the Weimar Constitution into law in 1919.
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August Bier was Chief Surgeon at the Charite in Berlin until 1928, when Ferdinand Sauerbruch assumed the position.
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August Bier remained at the Charite as Professor Emeritus until his retirement in 1932.
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August Bier served as director of the Deutsche Hochschule fur Leibesubungen in Berlin from its founding in 1920 until 1932.
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On 24 November 1936, August Bier received the Eagle Shield of the German Reich.
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On 30 January 1938, August Bier became one of only nine people to ever receive the German National Prize for Art and Science, an award created by Adolf Hitler that year as a replacement for the Nobel Prize, which he had forbidden Germans to accept.