Georg von Adelmann

Georg von Adelmann (1811 to 1888) was a German physician and surgeon, born in Fulda, who held the chair of surgery at the Imperial University of Dorpat for thirty years. He studied medicine at Marburg and Wurzburg and received his doctorate in 1832, worked as an assistant at the Marburg medical and surgical clinics and practised in Fulda from 1835. On the recommendation of the Heidelberg surgeon Maximilian Joseph von Chelius he was appointed at Dorpat in 1841 as successor to Nikolai Pirogov, and he kept that chair until 1871, when he retired to Berlin. His son-in-law Ernst von Bergmann succeeded him at Dorpat. He is credited with introducing a procedure in which flexion of the limb is used to control arterial bleeding, and his publications covered medicine and surgery, diseases of the maxillary sinus, the surgical pathology of the arteries and ligation, and surgical conditions of the digestive organs. This entry follows the lead of the source article.