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Georg Ledderhose

Born  1855
Died  1925

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German surgeon, born December 15, 1855, Bockenheim, Regierungsbezirk Wiesbaden; died February 1, 1925, Munich.

Biography of Georg Ledderhose

Georg Ledderhose studied in Strassburg, mainly as a pupil of Georg Albert Lücke (1829-1894). He received his medical doctorate in 1880 and subsequently worked as a surgeon at the Strassburg hospital. He became professor extraordinary of surgery in Strassburg in 1891. He later worked in Munich, where he became honorary professor. In 1876, Ledderhose discovered glycosamine whilst working on cartilage with Ernst Felix Immanuel Hoppe-Seyler (1825-1895) in Strassburg. This was the topic of his doctoral thesis.

We thank Wolfgang Wach for information submitted.

Bibliography

  • Über Glycosamin. Doctoral dissertation, Strassburg 1880.
  • Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Verhaltens von Blutergüssen in serösen Höhlen.
    Strassburg, 1885.
  • Chirurgische Erkrankungen der Bauchdecken und der Milz.
    Deutsche Chirurgie, Stuttgart, 1890, volume 45b.
  • Die ärztliche Untersuchung und Beurteilung der Unfallfolgen. Wiesbaden, 1898.
  • Über den blauen Eiter.
    Centralblatt fur Bakteriologie und Parasitenkunde, 1888, 4: 433-434.
  • Die Aetiologie der carpalen Ganglien.
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Chirurgie, Berlin, 1893, 37: 102.
  • Chirurgie des Thorax und der Brustdrüse.
    Diagnostische und therapeutische Irrtümer und deren Verhütung, Leipzig, Heft 1, 1920.
  • Chirurgie der Wirbelsäule, des Rückenmarks, der Bauchdecken und des Beckens.
    Diagnostische und therapeutische Irrtümer und deren Verhütung, Leipzig, Heft 2, 1921. Biographical:
  • Julius Leopold Pagel (1851-1912), publisher:
    Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Ärzte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts.
    Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin and Vienna, 1901.
  • Isidor Fischer (1869-1943), publisher:
    Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte der letzten fünfzig Jahre.
    Berlin – Wien, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1932.
  • Barry G. Firkin and Judith A. Whitworth:
    Dictionary of Medical Eponyms.
    The Parthenon Publishing Group. 1989. New edition in 2002.

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