Viktor Schmieden, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German surgeon
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Place of Birth: Berlin
About Viktor Schmieden
- Viktor Schmieden (19 January 1874 – 11 October 1945) was a German surgeon born in Berlin.
- In 1897 he earned his medical doctorate from the University of Bonn, and subsequently worked in hospitals in Göttingen, Berlin and Bonn.
- Later he was a professor at the Universities of Halle (from 1913) and Frankfurt (from 1919). Schmieden is remembered for his work with Franz Volhard (1872-1950) in the establishment of pericardectomy for treatment of constrictive pericarditis.
- Historically this procedure was referred to as "Schmieden's operation".
- He also made important contributions towards the treatment of hydrocephalus, and in 1926 identified that polyps of the colon were a precursor of colorectal cancer.
- He was a Generalarzt in the Wehrmacht during World War II.
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