Dieffenbach, JOHANN FRIEDRICH

Dieffenbach, JOHANN FRIEDRICH, surgeon, was born at Königsberg, 1st February 1794, and in 1832 became extraordinary, in 1840 ordinary, professor of Surgery at Berlin, where he died, 11th November 1847. He was distinguished as an operator, especially in the art of forming by transplantation new noses and lips. He wrote several works of no great importance on surgery, being little more than a brilliant operator.