Walter Hermann von Heineke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Walter Hermann von Heineke

German surgeon

Date of Birth: 17-May-1834

Place of Birth: Schönebeck, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Date of Death: 28-Apr-1901

Profession: surgeon, university teacher

Nationality: German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Walter Hermann von Heineke (17 May 1834, Schönebeck – 28 April 1901, Erlangen) was a German surgeon.
He was the son of physician Karl Friedrich Heineke (1798-1857). He studied at the Universities of Göttingen, Berlin, Leipzig and Greifswald, where he was a student and assistant to Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben (1819-1895).
At Greifswald he obtained his doctorate in 1858 and his habilitation for surgery in 1863.
From 1867 to 1901 he was a professor of surgery at the University of Erlangen. With Polish surgeon Jan Mikulicz-Radecki (1850-1905), the eponymous "Heineke-Mikulicz pyloroplasty" is named, which is a surgical procedure that involves enlargement of the pyloric stricture.