Profile
Christiaan Barnard
Surgeon + Doctor + Scientist
Male
Born
Nov 8, 1922
Hometown
Beaufort West
Died
Sep 2, 2001
Death Place
Paphos
Christiaan Neethling Barnard was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant.
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1922
Birth
Born in 1922.
TEENAGE
1940
18 Years Old
Barnard matriculated from the Beaufort West High School in 1940, and went to study medicine at the University of Cape Town Medical School, where he obtained his MB ChB in 1945.
TWENTIES
1948
26 Years Old
Barnard's first marriage was to Aletta Gertruida Louw, a nurse, whom he married in 1948 while practising medicine in Ceres.
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1951
29 Years Old
Barnard did his internship and residency at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, after which he worked as a general practitioner in Ceres, a rural town in the Cape Province. In 1951, he returned to Cape Town where he worked at the City Hospital as a Senior Resident Medical Officer, and in the Department of Medicine at the Groote Schuur Hospital as a registrar.
THIRTIES
1953
31 Years Old
He completed his Masters degree, receiving Master of Medicine in 1953 from the University of Cape Town.
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1956
34 Years Old
In 1956, he received a two-year scholarship for postgraduate training in cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States.
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In 1958 he received a Master of Science in Surgery for a thesis entitled, "The aortic valve – problems in the fabrication and testing of a prosthetic valve".
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FORTIES
1962
40 Years Old
He rose to the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Cape Town in 1962.
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1967
45 Years Old
He performed the world's first human heart transplant operation on 3 December 1967, in an operation assisted by his brother, Marius Barnard; the operation lasted nine hours and used a team of thirty people.
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1969
47 Years Old
International fame took a toll on his personal life, and in 1969, Barnard and his wife divorced.
1970
48 Years Old
In 1970, he married heiress Barbara Zoellner when she was 19, and they had two children: Frederick (born 1972) and Christiaan Jr. (born 1974).
LATE ADULTHOOD
1982
60 Years Old
He divorced Zoellner in 1982.
1983
61 Years Old
Barnard retired as Head of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery in Cape Town in 1983 after developing rheumatoid arthritis in his hands which precluded his surgical career.
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1986
64 Years Old
He had by this time become very interested in anti-aging research, and his reputation suffered in 1986 when he promoted Glycel, an expensive "anti-aging" skin cream, whose approval was withdrawn by the United States Food and Drug Administration soon thereafter.
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1988
66 Years Old
Barnard married for a third time in 1988 to Karin Setzkorn, a young model. They also had two children: Armin (born 1990) and Lara (born 1997), but this last marriage also ended in divorce in 2000.
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1993
71 Years Old
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His second autobiography, The Second Life, was published in 1993, eight years before his death.
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2001
80 Years Old
Christiaan Barnard died in September 2001, while on holiday in Paphos, Cyprus.
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