Lorenz Heister's Scientific Surgery

Lorenz Heister

A German anatomist, surgeon, physician, botanist, and university professor. As one of the prominent surgeons representing 18th-century Germany, he contributed greatly to the development of scientific surgery in the country. In his youth, he studied medicine and anatomy in the Netherlands and Leiden under Frederik Ruysch, Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, and Herman Boerhaave, among others, and treated wounded soldiers on the battlefield as a military surgeon during the War of the Spanish Succession. He taught anatomy and surgery at the University of Altdorf and the University of Helmstedt, authoring the surgical textbook "Chirurgie" and the anatomy textbook "Compendium anatomicum." His surgical works were translated into various European languages and were also utilized in Japan through Dutch studies and medical education. He is regarded as one of the founders of scientific surgery in Germany.

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Year	Lorenz Heister
1683	Birth of Lorenz Heister (Period: September 19, 1683, Location: Frankfurt am Main (Germany))
1701	War of the Spanish Succession (Age: 17 years old, Period: 1701–1714, Location: Western Europe, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, etc.)
1702	Medical research at the University of Giessen and Wetzlar (Lorenz Heister, Age: 18 years old, Period: 1702–1706, Location: Giessen and Wetzlar (present-day Germany))
1706	Anatomical research in Amsterdam (Lorenz Heister, Age: 22 years old, Period: 1706–1707, Location: Amsterdam (present-day Netherlands))
1707	Service in military field hospitals in Brussels and Ghent (Age: 23 years old, Period: Summer 1707, Location: Brussels and Ghent (present-day Belgium)) Medical and anatomical research in Leiden (Lorenz Heister, Age: 23 years old, Period: 1707–1708, Location: Leiden (present-day Netherlands))
1709	Rejoining the Dutch forces (Lorenz Heister, Age: 25 years old, Period: 1709, Location: Netherlands and Flanders) War of the Spanish Succession: Siege of Tournai (Age: 25 years old, Period: June–July 1709, Location: Tournai (present-day Belgium)) War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Malplaquet (Age: 25 years old, Period: September 11, 1709, Location: Malplaquet (near present-day France–Belgium border))
1711	Appointment as Professor at the University of Altdorf (Lorenz Heister, Age: 27 years old, Period: 1711, Location: Altdorf (present-day Germany, near Nuremberg))
1712	Marriage (Lorenz Heister, Eva Maria Hildebrand, Age: 28 years old, Period: 1712, Location: Altdorf (present-day Germany))
1715	Election as a foreign member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences (Lorenz Heister, Age: 31 years old, Period: 1715, Location: Berlin (present-day Germany))
1718	Publication of "Chirurgie" (Age: 34 years old, Period: 1718–1719, Location: Nuremberg (present-day Germany))
1720	Appointment as Professor at the University of Helmstedt (Lorenz Heister, Age: 36 years old, Period: 1720, Location: Helmstedt (present-day Germany)) Development of the Helmstedt Botanical Garden (Age: 36 years old, Period: 1720s–1730s, Location: Helmstedt (present-day Germany))
1721	Publication of "Compendium anatomicum" (Age: 37 years old, Period: 1721, Location: Helmstedt (present-day Germany))
1743	Election as Fellow of the Royal Society (Christiaan Huygens, Age: 59 years old, Period: 1743, Location: London, England)
1758	Death of Lorenz Heister (Age: 74 years old, Period: April 18, 1758)
Unknown	Research on tracheotomy (Lorenz Heister, Period: First half of the 18th century, Location: Helmstedt (present-day Germany)) International dissemination of surgery and anatomy (Period: First half to second half of the 18th century, Location: Germany, Europe, Japan, etc.)

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Roman Empire	Rudolf II Matthias Ferdinand II Ferdinand Ernst Leopold I Charles VI Maria Theresa
Habsburg Family	Leopold Felician Prince Eugene Kara Mustafa Pasha Jan Sobieski Charles V
Science and Astronomy	Tycho Brahe Jan Baptist van Helmont Georg Marcgrave Georg Ernst Stahl Lorenz Heister Albrecht von Haller Philip Clüver Maria Sibylla Merian Johann Georg Gmelin
Music & Art	Peter Paul Rubens Heinrich Schütz Dieterich Buxtehude Johann Pachelbel Georg Philipp Telemann Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt Johann Balthasar Neumann

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