Bernhard Moritz Carl Ludwig Riedel

Bernhard Moritz Carl Ludwig Riedel ( born September 18, 1846 in Laage, Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg, † September 12, 1916 in Jena ) was a German surgeon.

Life

Riedel studied at the universities of Jena and Rostock medicine. In 1867 he became a member of the Corps Thuringia, Jena. In Rostock in 1872 he laid the state exam and was awarded his doctorate for Dr. med. After three years as an assistant and prosector at the Anatomical Institute in Rostock with Johann Friedrich Sigmund Merkel in 1876, he moved to the Surgical Clinic in Göttingen as assistant to Franz König, where he habilitated in 1877 and in 1880 was appointed extraordinary professor. After another six and a half years as a senior physician and head of the surgical department of the hospital in Aachen Mariahilf Riedel in 1888 as the successor to Christian Heinrich Braun Professor of Surgery at the University of Jena and Director of the Surgical Clinic in Jena. In 1910 he became Professor Emeritus.

Both work on histological and embryologischem field and experimental research on surgical scars on the ligated vessels and fat embolism were part of his scientific work area. In 1882 he became the first German surgeons bloody reposition of the dislocated hip joint spontaneous, traumatic dislocated of 1884. He showed first after fractures albumin and casts in the urine. He originated a method of sequestrotomy. He showed first that the preferred angle of the jaw Kiemengangsfistel could communicate with the middle ear.

Awards

• After Riedel Riedel goiter, a thyroid disorder, the Riedel appendage of the liver or Riedel- cloth, were named the frontal sinus operations by Riedel and the Riedel tumor.
• In 1907 he was elected chairman of the German Society of Surgery
• In addition, he was appointed to the Privy medical officer.
• The Corps Thuringia Jena made ​​him an honorary member.

Writings

• Experience of the gallstone disease with and without jaundice. Berlin, 1892.
• Instructions for operating on the dead body and the living. Jena, 1896.
• The pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment d gallstone disease, 1903