Friedrich Ernst Krukenberg

Friedrich Ernst Krukenberg ( born April 1, 1871 in Halle an der Saale, † February 20, 1946 ) was a German gynecologist and pathologist. He was brother of Hermann Krukenberg (1863-1935) and Georg Heinrich Peter Krukenberg (1856-1899), and the grandson of Peter Krukenberg ( 1787-1865 ).

According to him, the Krukenberg tumor and the Krukenberg spindle is named.

Krukenberg studied at the University of Halle and the University of Marburg. In Marburg were among his teachers the ophthalmologist Theodor Axenfeld (1867-1930) and the pathologist Felix Jacob Marchand ( 1846-1928 ).