Moriz Heider

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

Life's work

Moriz Heider was a pupil of Georg Carabelli, whose ordination he took over. Because the reputation of dentists was very miserable at the beginning of the 19th century, he set himself the goal to establish dentistry as a medical specialty and thus enhance the less respected state of the dentists. He founded in 1861 the Association of Austrian dentists (today: Austrian Society for Dental, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery ( ÖGZMK ) ). This association pushed for the establishment of a training center for dentists.

Moriz Heider, however, worked not only unable politically, but was in many ways a pioneer of dental treatment. So he turned first in the German-speaking area of gold foil fillings.

Heider led an innovation in dentistry, the later the entire surgery used: galvanocaustic. In an interview with the Munich physicist Carl August von Steinheil he came up with the idea, the actual cautery, which was used for the destruction of the tooth nerve, to be replaced by a glowing platinum wire by electric current. In his paper published in 1846, he noted already that the method also in surgery is likely to be applicable. Heider can therefore rightly be described as the inventor of the galvano-cautery.

His friend Adolph ZSIGMONDY (1816-1880) and his son, Otto ZSIGMONDY (1860-1917) translated, according to Heider's death continues its pioneering work in the field of scientific dentistry.

Trivia

As Heider from its predecessor Georg Carabelli (1787-1842) was encouraged to deal with dentistry, he is said to have told him: "A honetter man who has learned something, can not be a dentist. "