Ferdinand Riedinger

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Ferdinand Riedinger (born September 19, 1844 in Schwanheim (Palatinate) , † March 29, 1918 in Würzburg ) was a German surgeon and university professor in Würzburg.

life and work

As the son of a tailor , Riedinger attended the Herzog-Wolfgang-Gymnasium in Zweibrücken . After graduating from high school, he studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg . He took part in the Franco-German War as a voluntary assistant doctor. After completing his habilitation in Würzburg in 1874 , he went on a long study trip to England and France. In 1883 he opened a private surgical clinic in Würzburg. In 1884 the University of Würzburg appointed him as associate professor and head of the surgical polyclinic . Out of love for the city, he declined calls to foreign ordinariates . During the First World War he served in the Bavarian Army as a consulting surgeon in the reserve hospitals of the II Royal Bavarian Army Corps . He also acted as chief physician of the (voluntary) club hospital Schillerschule in Würzburg. In 1917 he was appointed to the chair of surgery . His clinical work includes studies of artificial evacuation, diseases and injuries to the thorax and its contents, injuries to the chest and fractures. Most recently he read about war surgery. With Commotio thoracis he coined the term thoracic contusion which is used today .

In 1867 Riedinger became a corps student at Franconia Munich . When he moved to Würzburg , he was dismissed without a band because of too short an activity; It was returned to him in 1872. In July 1904, Makaria Würzburg awarded him the ribbon as thanks for his services as a drum doctor . In 1905 he also received the Rhenania Würzburg ribbon for his decades of loyalty .

Books

  • Studies on the reason and wedging of the femoral neck fractures , 1874 (was one of the first scientific books)
  • Injuries and surgical diseases of the thorax and its contents . German surgery, Enke, Stuttgart 1888

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Archives Corps Rhenania Würzburg
  2. ↑ Concussion, tear, hemorrhage of the organs in the chest; see chest contusion
  3. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 172/358; 206/137; 209/514.
personal data
SURNAME Riedinger, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwanheim (Palatinate)
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1918
Place of death Wurzburg