died in 1944 in Olomouc, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Legacy At the jubilee lecture relative to corneal transplant, Prof. Böck, the long-time head of the Second Ophthalmology Department at the University in Vienna said: "The name of Dr. Eduard Zirm will always be connected with the great accomplishment of this medical technique. With pride the Ophthalmology Department of the University of Vienna includes him as one of its own". In 2006, in a review of Zirm's landmark paper on his first successful full thickness corneal transplant, three English ophthalmologists concluded in the British Journal of Ophthalmology: ""Zirm showed undoubted skill and insight, but serendipity, as with many advances in medicine and science, must also have played some part in this remarkable achievement that paved the way for the successful treatment of many thousands of patients around the world with corneal disease"." References External links Dr. Zirm - Die erste geglückte Organtransplantation - 1905 at www.drzirm.org Pub med . 1863 births 1944 deaths Austrian ophthalmologists Physicians from Vienna University of Vienna alumni 19th-century Austrian physicians 20th-century Austrian physicians