Eduard Zirm

Eduard Zirm

Eduard Konrad Zirm (18 March 1863 - 15 March 1944) was an ophthalmologist who performed the first successful human tissue transplant on 7 December 1905.

Zirm was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1863. After graduating from Benedictine Abbey of Our Dear Lady to the Scots, Schottenstift, 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.