Hermann Krukenberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German surgeon
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Place of Birth: Calbe, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
About Hermann Krukenberg
- Hermann Krukenberg (21 June 1863 – 3 October 1935) was a German surgeon who was a native of Calbe, Province of Saxony, Germany.
- He was the brother of pathologist Friedrich Ernst Krukenberg (1871–1946). Krukenberg studied medicine at the Universities of Bonn, Strassburg and Heidelberg.
- Afterwards he was a surgical assistant to Friedrich Trendelenburg (1844–1924) in Bonn, and to Max Schede (1844–1902) at Eppendorf Hospital in Hamburg.
- In 1892 he became manager of a private clinic in Halle an der Saale, and in 1899 was chief surgeon at the municipal hospital in Liegnitz.
- During World War I he served as a field surgeon. In 1917 he developed an operation known today as the "Krukenberg procedure".
- This procedure involves separation of the ulna and radius bones in order to convert a below-elbow amputation stump into a "sensory forceps" that receives its strength from the pronator teres muscle.
- Among his written works was a 1913 book on physiognomy titled Gesichtsausdruck des Menschen.
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