Bernhard Moritz Carl Ludwig Riedel practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Bernhard Moritz Carl Ludwig Riedel as German surgeon (1846–1916).
Bernhard Moritz Carl Ludwig Riedel was born at Laage in 1846. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at University of Jena and University of Rostock.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at University of Jena.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Germany matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Bernhard Moritz Carl Ludwig Riedel died in 1916, aged 70. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Jena
