Peter Daniel Antonisz
| Peter Daniel Anthonisz | |
|---|---|
| Born |
25 June 1822 Galle, British Ceylon |
| Died | 12 June 1903 (aged 80) Galle, British Ceylon |
| Resting place | Galle Dutch Reformed Church |
| Education |
Bengal Medical College St Andrews University |
| Occupation | Doctor |
| Employer | Ceylon Medical Department |
| Parent(s) | Leonardus Henricus Anthonisz, Susanna Dorothea née Deutrom |
Dr Peter Daniel Anthonisz CMG, MD (25 June 1822 – 12 June 1903) was a well-known burgher doctor who was the first Ceylonese to obtain an M.R.C.P. and F.R.C.S. He was also the inaugural president of the Ceylon branch of the British Medical Association and a member of the Legislative Council for nine years.
Peter Daniel Anthonisz was born on 25 June 1822 in Galle, the first son of ten children, to Leonardus Henricus Anthonisz (1796–1845), the Chief Clerk of the Galle Customs and Susanna Dorothea née Deutrom (1805–1872). In 1838 at the age of sixteen he was appointed as a medical sub-assistant at the Military Hospital in Galle. The following year he was sent to study at the Bengal Medical College in Calcutta, returning in 1843. In the 1850s he worked as a physician at the Military Hospital in Colombo (his patients included the Governor Sir William Henry Gregory). In June 1856 he travelled to England, where he obtained an M.R.C.P. (Membership of the Royal College of Physicians, London) and F.R.C.S. (Fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh). He return to Ceylon in 1858, where in August he was appointed to as the Colonial Surgeon of the Southern Province, a post he remained at until 1880. During this period he travelled to Europe, where in 1863 he received a Doctorate in Medicine from the University of St Andrews (St Andrews, Scotland). In 1881 he left to do further studies. Upon his return in 1883 he took up the position of Chief Medical Officer at Galle. Anthonisz was the first doctor to successfully undertake Oesophagotomy and Ovariotomy surgery in the country and reportedly the first mentioned case of Oesphagotomy in British medical annals.
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