Ernst Julius Gurlt (13 September 1825 - 9 January 1899) was a German

surgeon In modern medicine, a surgeon is a medical professional who performs surgery. Although there are different traditions in different times and places, a modern surgeon usually is also a licensed physician or received the same medical training as ...

born in

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. He was the son of

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Ernst Friedrich Gurlt (1794–1882). He studied medicine in

, where he later became an assistant to

Bernhard von Langenbeck Bernhard Rudolf Konrad von Langenbeck (9 November 181029 September 1887) was a German surgeon known as the developer of Langenbeck's amputation and founder of ''Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery''. Life He was born at Padingbüttel, and recei ...

. In 1853 he received his habilitation for surgery, becoming an associate professor in 1862 at the

University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...

. He gained battle-related surgical experience during the

First Schleswig War The First Schleswig War (german: Schleswig-Holsteinischer Krieg) was a military conflict in southern Denmark and northern Germany rooted in the Schleswig-Holstein Question, contesting the issue of who should control the Duchies of Schleswig, ...

(1848),

Second Schleswig War The Second Schleswig War ( da, Krigen i 1864; german: Deutsch-Dänischer Krieg) also sometimes known as the Dano-Prussian War or Prusso-Danish War was the second military conflict over the Schleswig-Holstein Question of the nineteenth century. T ...

(1864),

Austro-Prussian War The Austro-Prussian War, also by many variant names such as Seven Weeks' War, German Civil War, Brothers War or Fraternal War, known in Germany as ("German War"), (; "German war of brothers") and by a variety of other names, was fought in 186 ...

(1866) and the Franco-Prussian War (1870/71). Gurlt specialized in the treatment and research of bone and joint injuries. He is remembered for studies conducted in the field of

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Written works

He was the author of an excellent three-volume work on the history of surgery, (''Geschichte der Chirurgie und ihre Ausübung'', 1898), that was acclaimed for its thoroughness.
''Preussische Pharmakopöe''
Berlin: Decker, 1847
''Beiträge zur vergleichenden pathologischen Anatomie der Gelenkkrankheiten''
Berlin 1853 * ''Handbuch der Lehre von den Knochenbrüchen'' (two volumes), (1862–64) Online
vol. 1

''Leitfaden für Operationsübungen am Kadaver und deren Verwerthung beim lebenden Menschen''
(1862). * ''Zur Geschichte der internationalen und freiwilligen Krankenpflege im Krieg'' (1873).
''Die Gelenk-Resectionen nach Schussverletzungen''
(1879). * ''Biographisches Lexicon der hervorragenden Ärtze aller Zeiten und Völker'' Online
volume 2 (1884)
* ''Geschichte der Chirurgie und ihrer Ausübung'' (1898) Online
vol. 1vol. 2vol. 3

References

translated biography @

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German surgeons Physicians from Berlin Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin 1825 births 1899 deaths {{Germany-med-bio-stub