Christian Albert Theodor Billroth was a brilliant surgeon who pioneered new techniques in abdominal surgery and added substantially to what was know at the time about cancers of gastrointestinal tract. Born in Bergen in 1829 to a family of Swedish...

1829-1894 Austrian surgeon regarded as the founder of modern abdominal surgery. Billroth received his degree from Berlin in 1852 and held teaching positions at Zurich and Vienna, where he made major contributions to surgical practice. Modern surgery...

Christian Albert Theodor Billroth (born 26 August 1829 in Bergen auf Rügen, Germany; died 6 February 1894 in Opatija, Austria-Hungary, now Croatia), was a German-born Austrian surgeon and amateur musician. As a surgeon, he is generally regarded as the...

Vignettes in Medical History MANY PEOPLE ARE familiar with the terms Billroth I and II which represent two of the many types of reconstruction after a subtotal gastrectomy. Yet few are aware of the far-reaching contributions he made or of the fact that...

Christian Albert Theodor Billroth was the first of five sons born to Carl Theodor Billroth, a priest in the Lutheran church and his wife Johanna Christina. He was born on April 26, 1829, at Bergen, on the island of Rügen, Prussia. The family lived...