Louis Stromeyer
{{Short description|German surgeon (1804–1876)}}
Georg Friedrich Louis Stromeyer (6 March 1804 – 15 June 1876) was a German surgeon. He was born and died in Hanover. He was the son of surgeon Christian Friedrich Stromeyer (1761–1824).[https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.aerzteblatt.de/v4/archiv/artikel.asp%3Fsrc%3Dsuche%26id%3D23303&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=7&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Georg%2BFriedrich%2BLouis%2BStromeyer%2522%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG aerzteblatt.de] Georg Friedrich Louis Stromeyer (translated biography)
Biography
From 1823, Stromeyer studied medicine at the University of Göttingen, receiving his doctorate in Berlin in 1826. In Göttingen he joined the German student Corps Hannovera. After graduation he undertook scientific travels throughout Europe, returning to Hanover in 1828, where he taught classes at the surgical school and founded an orthopedic institute. From 1838 to 1840 he was a professor of surgery at the University of Erlangen, followed by professorships at Munich (1841–42), Freiburg (1842–48) and Kiel.
During his career Stromeyer was Surgeon General of the Schleswig-Holstein and Hanoverian armies. During the Franco-Prussian War he served as Consultierender Generalarzt at the Battle of Sedan.[https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Stromeyer,_Louis&ei=MvrhSbusA53snQe8rt2qCQ&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=9&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Louis%2BStromeyer%2522%2B1804%2BKiel%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D10] translated biography @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
Stromeyer was a pioneer in orthopedics and orthopedic surgery. In 1831 he performed the first subcutaneous tenotomy (tendon surgery) of the Achilles tendon on a deformed foot. He introduced tenotomic surgery to England through a friend, English surgeon William John Little (1810–1894). Stromeyer performed the operation on Dr. Little in order to correct a clubfoot condition. Stromeyer was also a practitioner of maxillofacial surgery, being remembered for the eponymous "Stromeyer hook", a device used for zygomatic arch fractures.{{cite journal| pmid=10540828 | doi=10.1007/s100060050149 | volume=3 | title=[The Stromeyer hook. Life and work of the man behind the eponym] | year=1999 | journal=Mund Kiefer Gesichtschir | pages=270–4 | last1 = Knöner | first1 = W | last2 = Schultheiss | first2 = D | last3 = Kramer | first3 = FJ | last4 = Hausamen | first4 = JE| issue=5 | s2cid=22111783 }}
He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1862.{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?year=1862;year-max=1862;smode=advanced;startDoc=1|access-date=2021-04-20|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}
His daughter Helene Marie Stromeyer became a known painter.
Works
- Beiträge zur operativen Orthopädik; oder, Erfahrungen über die subcutane Durchschneidung verkürzter Muskeln und deren Sehnen, 1838.
- Handbuch der Chirurgie, 1844.
- Maximen der Kriegsheilkunst, 1855.
- "Gunshot fractures"; (published in English); Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1862.
- Erinnerungen eines deutschen Arztes, two volumes, 1875, {{ISBN|3-540-07659-X}}
Sources
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- [http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2009-166174/ WorldCat Identities] publications
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Category:Physicians from Hanover
Category:People from the Kingdom of Hanover
Category:German orthopedic surgeons
Category:University of Göttingen alumni
Category:Academic staff of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Category:German military doctors
Category:Academic staff of the University of Freiburg
Category:Academic staff of the University of Kiel
Category:Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich