The New International Encyclopædia/Gussenbauer, Karl

GUSSENBAUER, gụ'sen-bou'ẽr, Karl (1842-1903). An Austrian surgeon. He was born at Ober-Vellach, Carinthia, and was educated at Vienna, where for some time he was assistant to Billroth. In 1875 he was appointed professor of surgery at Liège, in 1878 he was made professor at Prague, and in 1894 he became professor of surgery in Vienna. He was the first to construct a serviceable artificial larynx. His researches were devoted chiefly to gastrotomy, removal of the larynx, partial intestinal resection, and methods of artificial bone-severance. His principal works include: Die traumatischen Verletzungen (1880); Sephthämie, Pyohämie und Pyo-Sephthämie (1882), and Beitrag zur Extirpation von Beckenknochengeschwülsten (1891).