Friedrich Trendelenburg practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Friedrich Trendelenburg as German surgeon (1844–1924).
Friedrich Trendelenburg was born at Berlin in 1844. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at University of Edinburgh and University of Glasgow.
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 Bonn, Leipzig University and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
The recorded fields of work are medicine and surgery.
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.
Friedrich Trendelenburg died in 1924, aged 80. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Bonn, Leipzig University and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Fields: medicine and surgery
