22 Facts About Theodore Billroth

Christian Albert Theodor Theodore Billroth was a German and Austrian surgeon and amateur musician.

Theodore Billroth was born at Bergen auf Rugen in the Kingdom of Prussia, the son of a pastor.

Theodore Billroth's father died of tuberculosis when Billroth was five years old.

Theodore Billroth attended school in Greifswald where he obtained his Abitur degree in 1848.

Theodore Billroth was an indifferent student, and spent more time practicing piano than studying.

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Theodore Billroth then followed Professor Baum to the University of Gottingen, and completed his medical doctorate at the Frederick William University of Berlin in 1852.

From 1853 to 1860 Theodore Billroth was an assistant in Bernhard von Langenbeck's surgical clinic at the Charite in Berlin.

In 1860, Theodore Billroth accepted an offer from the University of Zurich to become the Chair of Clinical Surgery, becoming director of the surgical hospital and clinic in Zurich.

Theodore Billroth was loved by his students, and was an effective undergraduate as well as graduate teacher.

Theodore Billroth was appointed professor of surgery at the University of Vienna in 1867, in succession to Franz Schuh; there, he practiced surgery as chief of the Second Surgical Clinic at the Allgemeine Krankenhaus .

Theodore Billroth was so impressed by the horrors of war that he was ever afterwards an ardent advocate of peace.

Theodore Billroth did not limit himself to surgery only, and conducted extensive research on an ailment that affected many surgery patients at the time: wound fever.

An early adopter of the "white coat", Billroth was directly responsible for a number of landmarks in surgery; in 1872, he was the first to conduct an esophagectomy, removing a section of the oesophagus and joining the remaining parts together.

Theodore Billroth was the first surgeon to excise a rectal cancer and by 1876, he had performed 33 such operations.

Theodore Billroth accomplished this operation by closing the greater curvature side of the stomach and anatomizing the lesser curvature to the duodenum, in an operation that is still known as the Billroth I to this day.

Theodore Billroth collaborated with Franz von Pitha on a Textbook of General and Special Surgery .

Theodore Billroth passed his restless intellectual spirit to numerous distinguished students, creating the "Theodore Billroth School" of followers.

Theodore Billroth was instrumental in establishing the first modern school of thought in surgery.

Theodore Billroth had radical ideas on surgical training, advocating a prolonged surgical apprenticeship on completion of medical studies consisting of preliminary work in hospitals followed by performing operations on cadavers and experimental animals.

Theodore Billroth died in Opatija, Austria-Hungary, before he could complete the research.

In 1887 Theodore Billroth was made a member of the Austrian Herrenhaus, "House of Lords"; a distinction rarely bestowed on members of the medical profession.

In 1888, Theodor Theodore Billroth was elected member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.