George Assaky

George Assaky (January 1, 1855 – April 29, 1899) was a Romanian physician.

Born in Iași, he was the grandson of Gheorghe Asachi. After completing high school, he left for France in 1873. There, he enrolled in the medical faculty of Montpellier University. The following year, he transferred to the equivalent section of the University of Paris, from which he graduated. From 1875 to 1877, he worked in the embryology laboratory at the Collège de France. He returned home during the Romanian War of Independence, joining the ambulance service and caring for wounded soldiers. Assaky subsequently went back to France to continue his studies, and in 1879 finished first at an examination for Parisian interns. From that year until 1882, he worked as a surgical intern in the French capital. Meanwhile, he wrote for a number of medical journals. In 1886, he defended a thesis titled De la suture des nerfs à distance; it dealt with separated nerve sutures and described a procedure that came to be known as the Assaky operation. The same year, he obtained the title of aggregate professor. For several years, he was aggregate professor at the University of Lille.