Maximilian Joseph von Chelius, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German surgeon
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Place of Birth: Mannheim, Baden-WĂĽrttemberg, Germany
About Maximilian Joseph von Chelius
- Maximilian Joseph von Chelius (16 January 1794 – 17 August 1876) was a German surgeon and ophthalmologist born in Mannheim.
- Chelius received his medical doctorate in 1812 at the University of Heidelberg, and afterwards worked as both a civilian and military physician in Munich.
- He was an army surgeon in the last phases of the Napoleonic Wars (1814-15).
- In 1817 he became an associate professor of surgery in Heidelberg, where soon afterwards he gained a full professorship (1819). He was a catalyst in the development of the medical faculty at the University of Heidelberg, being considered the founder of the surgical tradition at the facility.
- Chelius specialized in the field of ophthalmic surgery.
- One of his better-known patients was composer Frédéric Chopin, whom Chelius treated for sepsis of the finger.
- Afterwards, a grateful Chopin gave a private concert in Chelius' home.
- Today, the building where Chelius lived from 1830 until 1876 is the site of the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg.
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