Ernst von Bergmann

Ernst Gustav Benjamin von Bergmann was a Baltic German surgeon. He was the first physician to introduce heat sterilisation of surgical instruments and is known as a pioneer of aseptic surgery.

16 December 1836

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Born in the same month (December 1836): Franz von Lenbach