Leo Drüner

Born 1870
Died

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German surgeon, born June 7, 1870, Detmold.

Biography of Leo Drüner

Leo Drüner attended the universities of Halle an der Saale, Jena, and Marburg. He graduated from the University of Jena in 1904 and worked for some time in the anatomical institute of that university. From 1900 to 1906 he was on the staff of the Kaiser Wilhelm-Akademie and for a period he was commanded to work in the surgical clinic in Frankfurt am Main under Ludwig Wilhelm Carl Rehn (1849-1930). He received the title of professor in 1919 and later worked as a physician-in-chief Knappschaftskrankenhaus Fischbachtal, Quierschied-Saarbrücken. His work concerns roentgenstereoscopy, laparotomy, and hernias.

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