Georg Ledderhose

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Georg Ledderhose
University of Munich

Georg Otto Ledderhose (15 December 1855 – 1 February 1925) was a German

traumatologist
.

Biography

Early life

He was born in the

Alsace-Lorraine, as well as rector of the University of Strasbourg, and he would hold the latter position until 1887.[3]

Education

Ledderhose studied medicine at the

Walter Haworth.[8][9]
)

Career and later life

Ledderhose received his medical degree from the University of Strasbourg in 1880, after which he practiced surgery at the

dramaturg and biographer Eduard Scharrer-Santen (1869-1942).[11]
They had two children:

From 1891, he was named a professor in surgery at his alma mater by his mentor Dr. Lücke.

honorary professor, and where he taught until his retirement and death.[16]

Legacy

In addition to his work in discovering glucosamine, Ledderhose is perhaps most famous today for being the first to describe the condition of

Ledderhose's disease in his honor.[17][18]

Publications

The tomb of Dr. Georg Ledderhose, his wife, and their two children

References

  1. ^ a b Pfeiffer, August Ludwig (1886). Die Familie Pfeiffer: Eine Sammlung von Lebensbildern und Stammbäumen. Kassel: Druck von Friedr. Scheel.
  2. ^ Brandes, Gustav (1934). Die Familien "du Pré" oder "Dupré" - "von der Wiese". Dresden.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ISBN 978-1-78720-383-9
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  4. ^ Loudon, G. Marc (2009). Organic Chemistry. Greenwood Village: Roberts and Company.
  5. ^ Horton, Derek (1965). "Monosaccharide Amino Sugars". In Balazs, Endre; Jeanloz, Roger (eds.). The Amino Sugars: The Chemistry and Biology of Compounds Containing Amino Sugars. Vol. 1A: The Chemistry of Amino Sugars. New York: Academic Press.
  6. ^ Georg Ledderhose (1876) "Über salzsaures Glycosamin" [On glucosamine hydrochloride], Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft, 9(2): 1200-1201.
  7. ISBN 0-87169-191-4
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  8. ^ W. N. Haworth, W. H. G. Lake, and S. Peat (1939) "The configuration of glucosamine (chitosamine)," Journal of the Chemical Society, pages 271-274.
  9. ISBN 0-12-556351-5
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  10. ^ “Paris.” The British Medical Journal 1, no. 1319 (1886): 714–15. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25275599.
  11. ^ Degener, Hermann, ed. (1922). Wer Ist's? (VIII ed.). Leipzig: Ludwig Degener. pp. 1334–1335.
  12. ^ Anger, V (1990). Le docteur Edgar Stulz (1893-1963). Esquisse d'une biographie (MD). Strasbourg.
  13. ISBN 978-0-8018-6097-3
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  14. ^ a b Muller-Pinelli, Jeannine (1974). Histoire du Centre de traumatologie de Strasbourg (MD). Strasbourg.
  15. ^ Spindler, Charles (1925). "11 octobre 1914". L'Alsace pendant la guerre. 1914-1918. Strasbourg.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  16. ^ "Tagesgeschichte". Zeitschrift für ärztliche Fortbildung. 16 (18). Ernst von Bergmann: 544. 15 September 1919.
  17. ^ Ledderhose G (1894). "Ueber Zerreisungen der Plantarfascie (On tears in the plantar fascia)". Archiv für Klinische Chirurgie. 48: 853–856.
  18. ^ "Dupuytren's contracture - Patient UK". Retrieved 2007-12-28.
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