In the history of medicine, Albert Fraenkel is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Albert Fraenkel as German physician (1864-1938).
Albert Fraenkel was born at Mußbach an der Weinstraße in 1864. His recorded nationality is German Reich.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at Heidelberg University.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from German Reich matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Albert Fraenkel died in 1938, aged 74. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Heidelberg University
