Eduard Konrad Zirm was an Austrian ophthalmologist who performed the first successful human full-thickness corneal transplant on 7 December 1905.
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![Memorial plaque at Eye Clinic in hospital in Olomouc shows the text in Czech: Dr. Eduard Konrad Zirm has performed the first transplant of the cornea in the world on 7 December 1905 in this building. [This plaque] was made in 2005.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Eduard_Konrad_Zirm_memorial_plaque.jpg/1280px-Eduard_Konrad_Zirm_memorial_plaque.jpg)
Doctors born in the 1860s 6
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Category
Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1863 to 1944 · aged 80
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