Karl Ferdinand von Gräfe
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Karl Ferdinand von Gräfe (March 8, 1787 – July 4, 1840) was a German surgeon from Warsaw.
He studied medicine at Halle and Leipzig, and after obtaining licence from the Leipzig university, he was in 1807 appointed private physician to Duke Alexius of Anhalt-Bernburg. In 1811 he became professor of surgery and director of the surgical clinic at Berlin, and during the war with Napoleon he was superintendent of the military hospitals.
When peace was concluded in 1815, he resumed his professorial duties. He was also appointed physician to the general staff of the army, and he became a director of the Friedrich Wilhelm Institute and of the Medico-Chirurgical Academy (Charité). He died suddenly at Hanover, whither he had been called to operate on the eyes of the crown prince.
Gräfe did much to advance the practice of surgery in Germany, especially in the treatment of wounds. He improved the rhinoplastic process, and its revival was chiefly due to him. His lectures at the university of Berlin attracted students from all parts of Europe.
The following are his principal works:
- Normen für die Ablösung größerer Gliedmaßen (Berlin, 1812)
- Rhinoplastik (1818)
- Neue Beiträge zur Kunst, Teile des Angesichts organisch zu ersetzen (1821)
- Die epidemisch-kontagiose Augenblennorrhoe Ägyptens in den europäischen Befreiungsheeren (1824)
- Jahresberichte ber das klinisch-chirurgisch-augenarztliche Institut der Universität zu Berlin (1817-1834)
He also edited, with Philipp Franz von Walther, the Journal für Chirurgie und Augenheilkunde. See E Michaelis, Karl Ferdinand von Gräfe in seiner 30 jahrigen Wirken für Staat und Wissenschaft (Berlin, 1840).
This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
