Arnold Seppo

Arnold Seppo (1917 to 1980) was an Estonian surgeon and traumatologist. He was born on 31 December 1917 in the St. Petersburg Region and died in Tallinn on 19 April 1980. He graduated from the Leningrad I Medical Institute in 1941 and from 1941 to 1946 served as a surgeon of the 8th Estonian Rifle Corps. From 1947 to 1949 he worked as a researcher at the Estonian Academy of Sciences while also working as a surgeon at the East Tallinn Central Hospital. From 1949 to 1956 he was a lecturer at Tartu University and head of its general surgery chair, and from 1957 to 1977 he headed the traumatology department of the Tallinn Tonismae Hospital. From 1977 he was associated with the Metal Osteosynthesis Scientific Research Institute, and from 1992 until it closed in 1994 that institute bore his name as the A. Seppo Traumatology and Orthopaedic Centre.