Paul von Bruns

Paul von Bruns (1846 to 1916) was a German surgeon born in Tübingen, the son of the surgeon Victor von Bruns and the son in law of the Protestant theologian Karl Heinrich Weizsäcker. In 1882 he became director of the surgical clinic at Tübingen and a full professor at its university. He wrote on a wide range of surgical subjects, including laryngotomy for the removal of growths in the larynx, acute osteomyelitis, gunshot wounds, operations on the limbs and the treatment of goiter. In 1885 he founded the journal Beiträge zur klinischen Chirurgie and edited it until his death, and with Ernst von Bergmann and Jan Mikulicz-Radecki he published the four volume Handbuch der Chirurgie.