Ernst Julius Gurlt

Ernst Julius Gurlt (September 13, 1825 - January 9, 1899) was a German surgeon who was born in Berlin. He was the son of veterinarian Ernst Friedrich Gurlt (1794–1882).

He studied medicine in Berlin, where he later became an assistant to Bernhard von Langenbeck. In 1853 he received his habilitation for surgery, becoming an associate professor in 1862 at the University of Berlin. He gained battle-related surgical experience during the First Schleswig War (1848), Second Schleswig War (1864), Austro-Prussian War (1866) and the Franco-Prussian War (1870/71).

Gurlt specialized in the treatment and research of bone and joint injuries, and is remembered for important work done in the field of medical statistics. He was the author of an excellent three-volume work on the history of surgery (Geschichte der Chirurgie und ihre Ausübung, 1898), which was acclaimed for its thoroughness. Other noted publications by Gurlt are:

Handbuch der Lehre von den Knochenbrüchen (2 volumes), (1862–64)
Leitfaden für Operationsübungen am Kadaver, (1862)
Zur Geschichte der internationalen und freiwilligen Krankenpflege im Krieg (1873)
Die Gelenk-Resectionen nach Schussverletzungen, (1879)

References

[1] translated biography @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

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Name	Gurlt, Ernst Julius
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Date of birth	September 13, 1825
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Date of death	January 9, 1899
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