Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Dying Emperor by Thomas A. Turley

Author:Thomas A. Turley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sherlock Holmes, spy, mystery, crime, british crime, sherlock holmes novels, World War I, First World War
ISBN: 9781787054073
Publisher: Andrews UK
Published: 2018-12-13T16:00:00+00:00

56 Although of German ancestry, Ernst von Bergmann (1836–1907) was born in Riga, Livonia (now Latvia), one of the Baltic governorates of the Russian Empire. As Mycroft discovered, he had been Professor of Surgery at Dorpat and Würzburg before arriving in Berlin (1882), where he held the same post for the rest of his career. Von Bergmann had gained considerable experience as a military surgeon, serving in Bismarck’s wars with Austria and France as well as the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). Besides the achievements Watson cites, he developed an improved procedure for treating gunshot wounds and wrote classic works on head injuries and brain surgery. See his biographical article in Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_von_Bergmann). As he informed Watson, von Bergmann was “a liberal in politics, and a friend of the Crown Prince” (Ponsonby, p. 225), facts which make his conduct of the case - from the British point of view, at least - all the more ambiguous.

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