Ernst Julius Gurlt

Ernst Julius Gurlt was a German surgeon, born in Berlin on 13 September 1825 and died on 9 January 1899. He was the son of the veterinarian Ernst Friedrich Gurlt. He studied medicine in Berlin, became an assistant to Bernhard von Langenbeck, qualified as a lecturer in surgery in 1853 and became an associate professor at the University of Berlin in 1862. He gained battlefield surgical experience in the First and Second Schleswig Wars, the Austro-Prussian War and the Franco-Prussian War. Gurlt specialized in the treatment and research of bone and joint injuries, and he is remembered for his studies in medical statistics.