Max Schede

Max Schede ( born January 7, 1844 in Arnsberg, † December 31, 1902 in Bonn ) was a German surgeon and professor of medicine in Hamburg and Bonn.

Life

Schede (later Attorney in Halle / Saale) was born as the son of the Higher Regional Court Assessors Otto Ludwig Schede. He studied medicine in 1862 at the Universities of Halle, Heidelberg and Zurich. He was a member of Corps Borussia Hall (1863 ) and Tigurinia (1864 ). When promoted to MD et chir. (1866 ) and participation in the war against Austria as a doctor, he returned to Halle and became assistant to Richard von Volkmann, one of the founders of modern surgery in Germany.

During the France - campaign 1870/71 Schede conducted a field hospital. In 1872 he habilitated. In 1875 he was directing of Surgery in Berlin Klinikum im Friedrichshain. In 1880, he moved to Hamburg St. Georg hospital. From there he coined the structure of the Eppendorf University Hospital, where he in 1888 took over the management of the Surgical Clinic. In 1895, he followed the call of the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms University in the Department of Surgery. Like his teacher Volkmann applies Max Schede as a pioneer of antisepsis in Germany.

He founded in 1874, the Zentralblatt für Surgery

At the UKE in Hamburg- Eppendorf a residential street with pins and nursing homes in 1903 named after him. At the UKB in Bonn station was named after him.

Publications (selection)

• On the use of the rigid tray in the treatment of ulcers ( 1872)
• The antiseptic treatment of wounds with corrosive sublimate (1885 )
• Congenital dislocation of the hip (1900)