Lorenz Böhler

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Lorenz Böhler (January 15, 1885 – January 20, 1973) was an Austrian physician and famous surgeon. He was born in Wolfurt, Austria.

Böhler is most notable as the creator of modern accident surgery. He was the head of the AUVA-Hospital in Vienna, Brigittenau, that was later named after him. This hospital was an international model during his time as the leading surgeon there.

He was fascinated by medicine early on, when he saw the X-ray of Wilhelm Röntgen's wife hand as an 11-year old kid. He started his studies in medicine in 1904 and worked as a physician on a ship after graduating. During the first World War he was leading surgeon in a military hospital and expanded it to a special station for bone fractures. On his initiative the AUVA-hospital opened in 1925, where he later published his book on bone fractures and modern techniques to deal with them in 1928.

In radiology, the measurement of Böhler's angle on a foot x-ray can help detect fractures of the calcaneus.