Simon Pallas | |
Caption: | Simon Pallas |
Birth Date: | 1694 |
Birth Place: | Berlin, Holy Roman Empire |
Death Date: | July 24, 1770 |
Nationality: | Prussian |
Field: | Medicine Surgery |
Work Institutions: | Collegium medico-chirurgicum |
Simon Pallas (1694 – July 24, 1770) was a Prussian physician.[1]
Pallas was born in Berlin, where he remained through his life. He was professor of surgery at the Collegium medico-chirurgicum, and first surgeon at the Charité hospital. He was considered a bold surgeon, and wrote a number of textbooks on the subject.
He was the father of famous zoologist and botanist Peter Simon Pallas, and of physician August Friedrich Pallas.