Eduard Albert

Eduard Albert (20 January 1841 – 26 September 1900) was a Czech surgeon, professor and historian.

Life

Eduard Albert was born on 20 January 1841in Žamberk, Bohemia, in the family of clockmaker František Albert and Kateřina Albertová (née Zdobnická). He married in 1868 with Marie Pietschová and they had two children, but one of them died in early childhood. Further notable people from their family were also František Albert (1856–1923), surgeon and writer; Tereza Svatová (1858–1940), writer; and Kateřina Thomová (1861–1952), creatress of amateur theatre in Žamberk and founder of municipal museum in Žamberk.

Eduard Albert studied medicine at the University of Vienna, where he earned his doctorate in 1867. At Vienna he was a student of Salomon Stricker (1834–1898) and Johann von Dumreicher (1815–1880). From 1873 to 1881, he was a professor of surgery in Innsbruck, where he introduced mandatory antiseptic treatment for wounds. In 1881, Albert attained the chair of surgery in Vienna, where he remained until 1900. He was succeeded at Innsbruck in 1881 by Carl Nicoladoni (1847–1902). Albert died of a stroke on 26 September 1900 in Žamberk.

Works Diagnostika chirurgických nemocí (1876) Učebnice chirurgie a nauky operační (1877) Paměti Žamberské (1889)

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