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Born in Bucharest in 1927, Fahrer emigrated to Australia via Paris in 1963 as a political refugee. Despite challenges with medical registration and limited English, he secured a position at the University of Queensland after an unusual interview with Professor Max Hickey, conducted largely in Latin. Fahrer subsequently requalified medically in Australia whilst maintaining surgical expertise through sabbaticals in Queensland, France and Germany. His collaboration with Raoul Tubiana at the Institute of Hand Surgery in Paris proved substantial, contributing to the seminal English translation of Tubiana's five\u2010volume treatise on hand surgery. Throughout his distinguished career, Fahrer championed cadaveric dissection in surgical education, mentored countless trainees and served as Honorary Curator of the Cowlishaw Collection, receiving both the ESR Hughes Award and the Kenneth Russell Medal for his outstanding contributions. Widely respected in Australia and internationally, Fahrer's career exemplified the integration of anatomical scholarship with surgical innovation at a time when surgical subspecialisation was rapidly developing. His influence as a teacher, mentor, and an advocate for anatomy\u2010based surgical education left a lasting legacy for subsequent generations of hand surgeons and anatomists.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1111\/ans.70955","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,19]],"date-time":"2026-09-19T01:20:45Z","timestamp":1789780845000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Marius Fahrer: Possibly the Last Australian Surgeon\u2010Anatomist and His Valued and Varied Legacy"],"prefix":"10.1111","author":[{"given":"Norman","family":"Eizenberg","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Melbourne Clinical School, The University of Notre Dame Australia  Werribee Victoria Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1121-2829","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ritesh","family":"Chimoriya","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Concord Institute of Academic Surgery Concord Repatriation General Hospital  Concord New South Wales Australia"},{"name":"Concord Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, the University of Sydney  Camperdown New South Wales Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Elizabeth","family":"Milford","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Archival Records  East Melbourne Victoria Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wayne","family":"Morrison","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Plastic Surgery St. Vincent's Hospital Melbourne  Melbourne Victoria Australia"},{"name":"Department of Surgery University of Melbourne  Melbourne Victoria Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Claude N.","family":"Fahrer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Adult Retrieval Victoria (Ambulance Victoria)  Essendon Fields Victoria Australia"},{"name":"Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital  East Melbourne Victoria Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Aude M.","family":"Fahrer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Biomedical Science and Biochemistry, Research School of Biology The Australian National University  Acton Australian Capital Territory Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Pierre","family":"Chapuis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Concord Institute of Academic Surgery Concord Repatriation General Hospital  Concord New South Wales Australia"},{"name":"Concord Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, the University of Sydney  Camperdown New South Wales Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,18]]},"reference":[{"issue":"7","key":"e_1_2_13_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1428","DOI":"10.1111\/ans.16650","article-title":"Australian and New Zealand Contribution to Plastic Surgery","volume":"91","author":"Yousef J.","year":"2021","journal-title":"ANZ Journal of Surgery"},{"issue":"8","key":"e_1_2_13_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1570","DOI":"10.1007\/s00268-009-0089-0","article-title":"Plastic Surgeons and Their Contributions to Australian Surgery","volume":"33","author":"Morrison W.","year":"2009","journal-title":"World Journal of Surgery"},{"issue":"6","key":"e_1_2_13_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"377","DOI":"10.1046\/j.1440-1622.2001.02127.x","article-title":"Art Macabre: Resurrectionists and Anatomists","volume":"71","author":"Magee R.","year":"2001","journal-title":"ANZ Journal of Surgery"},{"issue":"11","key":"e_1_2_13_5_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"806","DOI":"10.1111\/ans.12847","article-title":"Anatomy Teaching to Medical Students and Future Trainees: The Paradigm Shift","volume":"84","author":"Eizenberg N.","year":"2014","journal-title":"ANZ Journal of Surgery"},{"issue":"5","key":"e_1_2_13_6_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"771","DOI":"10.1111\/ans.16798","article-title":"Is a Little Anatomy Sufficient or Is a Little More Too Much?","volume":"91","author":"Chapuis P.","year":"2021","journal-title":"ANZ Journal of Surgery"},{"issue":"6","key":"e_1_2_13_7_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"333","DOI":"10.1046\/j.1440-1622.2001.02161.x","article-title":"Art Macabre: Is Anatomy Necessary?","volume":"71","author":"Fahrer M.","year":"2001","journal-title":"ANZ Journal of Surgery"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_8_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"779","DOI":"10.1046\/j.1445-1433.2001.02254.x","article-title":"Letters to the Editor \u201cArt Macabre: Is Anatomy Necessary?\u201d","volume":"71","year":"2001","journal-title":"ANZ Journal of Surgery"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_9_1","first-page":"253","article-title":"Maurice (\u201cToby\u201d) Arnold. 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