The word “endoscopy” was used first by Antonin Jean Desormeaux (1815–1894), a urologist from Paris 1).
It is Philipp Bozzini (1773–1809), however, a German physician born to an aristocratic Italian family, who is credited with the invention of the first endoscope 200 years ago.
The “Lichtleiter,” which he demonstrated in 1806 to the Academy of Medicine of Vienna, consisted of an eyepiece and a container for a candle light, which was reflected by a mirror through a tube