He was born on 31st July 1852 in BEKESCSABA - Hungary where his father was serving as Oberleutnant in the 8th Uhlanenregiment. In 1860 the family moved to Mediasch, his mother’s home town. Here he completed the grammar school in 1870 and went on to study at the universities in GRAZ - WURZBURG - BERLIN and WIEN - where at the last mentioned university he received his doctor diploma for general medical practice.

During some military actions in the year 1878 he served as a volunteer for 3 months in Travnik - Bosnia in the field hospital. He wanted to dedicate himself to the military service and enrolled in 1881 in Vienna to attend a course for the military medical school and was drafted on 25 Feb. 1882 to the garrison hospital in TRIEST (South Tirol).

Here he was greatly influenced by the lively activities of the shipping lines that he quit his military service on February 28, 1883 and was taken on by the Austro-Hungarian Lloyd Steamship company as ship’s doctor. In this capacity he visited the coastal towns and Islands of Dalmatia in Croatia, Greece, the European part of Turkey, Asia- minor, Syria, Egypt, then from Italy, Spain and Portugal he went twice to Brazil

Then he visited the coastal countries of the Red Sea then the western part of India - the islands of Ceylon and Sumatra - the eastern part of India and China.

After these two years of almost uninterrupted travel he gave up his post of ship’s doctor and applied for a post as District medical Dr. in MARIENBURG which he received on 31st March 1885. Here he got married to Wilhelmina Gust and on 26 Dec 1887 their first daughter EDITH JEANETTE was born. Then followed twin girls - CARMEN and ALMA. Sadly Alma got pneumonia and died aged 3 months.

Since 1st February 1889 he is in secondary position at the FRANZ-JOSEF BURGER-SPITAL

in HERMANNSTADT (Sibiu) and in 1904 was elected and became PRIMAR-ARZT at the same hospital.

He published the following:-

1) From Transylvania To Spitzbergen, S.d.F 6880-6891

6898 - 6899 - (1896)

2) Theodor Billroth, lecture given on 29th December 1896 in the hall of the District Council HERMANNSTADT - and printed by Josef Drotlef (special print of the S.d.F.7013 pp (1897)

Lexicon of Authors of the Transylvanian Germans. Volume IV by Dr Friedrich Schuller.

(Billroth invented the sterile dressing for wounds called Billroth Batist)

This document has been translated by www.janserKraft.com

With reference to his publication 'From Transylvania To Spitzbergen' which is kept in the museum in Sibiu. This is about Arthur's trip to Norway in the summer of 1896. Thirty international scientists from thirty countries were sent to explore the region, below is a picture of them on the 'Erling Jarl' boat. The caption reads 'The travel companions on the 'Erling Jarl'. Arthur is in the front to the right with the white cap and beard. A picture of the boat can be found here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DS_Erling_Jarl_1895.jpg

On this trip they met the arctic balloonist Salomon Andrée and his companions who were preparing for their balloon flight over the North Pole the following year. They were also seeking news of Fridtjof Nansen who had attempted to go as far north as possible (and succeeded) but his whereabouts were not know until sometime later in 1896. The exploits of these two explorers was initially written about by Georg Wegener in the book 'Zum Ewigen Eise' which is still available.

Arthur brought various articles home from his Norway adventure including shells, skeletons and molluscs. Some shells had not been seen before in Romania, they were given the name ' Neptunea Sachsenheimi' and are also in the museum in Sibiu.