Ernst Gustav Benjamin von Bergmann was a Baltic German surgeon. He was the first physician to introduce heat sterilisation of surgical instruments and is known as a pioneer of aseptic surgery.
- Occupation
- military physician, physician, university teacher, surgeon
- Position held
- member of the Prussian House of Lords
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Born
- December 16, 1836
- Died
- March 25, 1907
