Franz Christoph von Rothmund

Franz Christoph von Rothmund (1801 to 1891) was a German surgeon, born in Dettelbach and died in Munich, and the father of the ophthalmologist August von Rothmund. He studied medicine at the University of Würzburg with Ignaz Döllinger, Cajetan von Textor and Johann Lukas Schönlein, and then under Karl Ferdinand von Gräfe at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin. From 1823 he served as court physician in Miltenberg, later performing similar duties in Volkach, and in 1843 he became a professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, where he later received the title of Obermedicinalrath. He is known for his work on the radical surgery of hernias. He retired from medicine in 1871, and at his death he was regarded as the doyen of German surgeons.