KARL

FERDINAND VON

See also:

• GRAFE, ALBRECHT VON (1828–187o)
• GRAFE, HEINRICH (1802–1868)
• KARL FERDINAND VON GRAFE (1787–1840)

GRAFE (1787–1840)  , German surgeon, was born at Warsaw on the 8th of March 1787 . He studied medicine at Halle and Leipzig, and after obtaining licence from the Leipzig university, he was in 1807 appointed private physician to Duke Alexius of Anhalt-Bernburg . In 1811 he became professor of surgery and director of the surgical clinic at Berlin, and during the war with Napoleon he was superintendent of the military hospitals . When peace was concluded in 1815, he resumed his professorial duties . He was also appointed physician to the general staff of the army, and he became a director of the Friedrich Wilhelm Institute and of the Medico-Chirurgical Academy . He died suddenly on the 4th of July 184o at Hanover, whither he had been called to operate on the eyes of the crown prince . Grafe did much to advance the practice of surgery in Germany, especially in the treatment of wounds . He improved the rhinoplastic process, and its revival was chiefly due to him . His lectures at the university of Berlin attracted students from all parts of Europe . The following are his principal works: Normen fur die Ablosung grosser Gliedmassen (Berlin, 1812) ; Rhinoplastik (1818) ; Neue Beitrage zur Kunst Theile des Angesichts organisch zu ersetzen (1821); Die epidemisch-kontagiose Augenblennorrhoe Agyptens in den europaischen Befreiungsheeren (1824); and Jahresberichte fiber das klinisch-chirurgisch-augenarztliche Institut der Universitat zu Berlin (1817-1834) . He also edited, with Ph. von Walther, the Journal fur Chirurgie and Augenheilkunde . See E .