Eduard Zirm
Austrian ophthalmologist
Died when: 80 years 363 days (971 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Eduard Konrad Zirm (18 March 1863 – 15 March 1944) was an Austrian ophthalmologist who performed the first successful human full-thickness corneal transplant on 7 December 1905.
Zirm was born in Vienna, he studied medicine at the University of Vienna, and ophthalmology at the Eye Clinic there.
After graduation, Zirm became an eye doctor at the Second Eye Clinic in Vienna, then accepted a position at a hospital in Olomouc, Moravia, in 1892.
There he became chief of the new ophthalmology clinic that he helped establish.
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