Eduard Zirm

Eduard Zirm (1863-1944)

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.[1]

  1. ^ Armitage, W J; Tullo, A B; Larkin D F P (October 2006). "The first successful full-thickness corneal transplant: a commentary on Eduard Zirm's landmark paper of 1906". Br J Ophthalmol. 10. 90 (10): 1222–1223. doi:10.1136/bjo.2006.101527. PMC 1857444. PMID 16980643.