Moriz Heider

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Moritz Heider

Moriz Heider (born June 21, 1816 in Vienna , † July 29, 1866 there ) was an Austrian dentist and professional politician .

Life's work

Moriz Heider was a student of Georg Carabelli , whose ordination he took over. Because the reputation of dentists was extremely miserable at the beginning of the 19th century, he set himself the goal of establishing dentistry as a medical specialty and thus upgrading the less respected status of dentists. In 1861 he founded the Association of Austrian Dentists (today: Austrian Society for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine ( ÖGZMK )). This association promoted the establishment of a training center for dentists. Heider was also the first president of the "Central Association of German Dentists" (CVdZ, today: DGZMK ); he held this office from 1859 until his death in 1866.

Moriz Heider did not only work in terms of class politics, but was in many ways a pioneer in dental treatment. He was the first to use gold hammer fillings in the German-speaking area .

Heider introduced an innovation in dentistry that would later be used in all of surgery : galvano-caustic . In a conversation with the Munich physicist Carl August von Steinheil , he came up with the idea of replacing the hot iron , which was used to destroy the tooth nerve , with a platinum wire glowing with an electric current . In his 1846 publication , he noted that the method could also be used in surgery. Heider can therefore rightly be called the inventor of galvanocaustic.

His friend Adolph Zsigmondy (1816–1880) and his son, Otto Zsigmondy (1860–1917), continued his pioneering work in the field of scientific dentistry after Heider's death.

Tomb in the Hietzingen cemetery

Moriz Heider was buried in the Hietzinger Friedhof in Vienna in an honorary grave (group 6, number 29).

Trivia

When Heider was encouraged by his predecessor Georg Carabelli (1787–1842) to deal with dentistry, he is said to have replied: "A respectable person who has learned something cannot become a dentist."

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.oegzmksalzburg.at/de/start/index.asp Austrian Society for Dental, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine, Branch Association Salzburg. Founded in 1861
  2. ↑ Dominik Groß, Gereon Schäfer: History of the DGZMK 1859-2009 . Berlin 2009.
  3. ^ Moriz Heider in the search for the deceased at friedhoefewien.at
personal data
SURNAME Heider, Moriz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian dentist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1866
Place of death Vienna