Background
Pallas was born in Berlin, where he remained through his life.
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.