Eduard Georg von Wahl

Eduard Georg von Wahl was a Baltic German surgeon, born in 1833 at Wattel in the Governorate of Estonia and dead in Dorpat in 1890. He took his doctorate at the Imperial University of Dorpat in 1859, studying under Friedrich Bidder and Hermann Guido von Samson-Himmelstjerna, and continued his training in Berlin and Paris. From 1860 he practised privately and worked as a hospital surgeon in St. Petersburg, and from 1867 he was head surgeon at the Prinz Peter von Oldenburg children hospital. In 1878 he became professor of surgery at Dorpat, where he was university rector from 1881 to 1885. Beyond surgery he was prominent in the public and medical fight against leprosy, mental illness and sexually transmitted diseases.