Max Schede, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Max Schede

German surgeon

Date of Birth: 07-Jan-1844

Place of Birth: Arnsberg, Free State of Prussia, Germany

Date of Death: 31-Dec-1902

Profession: surgeon, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Max Schede (7 January 1844 – 31 December 1902) was a German surgeon born in Arnsberg. Schede studied medicine at the Universities of Halle, Heidelberg and Zurich, obtaining his medical doctorate in 1866.
After serving as a doctor in the Austro-Prussian War, he became an assistant to Richard von Volkmann (1830-1889) at Halle.
During the Franco-Prussian War, he was in charge of a Feldlazaretts.
In 1875, he appointed head of the surgical department at Friedrichshain Hospital in Berlin, and from onward 1880, he practiced surgery at St.
Georg Hospital in Hamburg. At Hamburg he was a catalyst towards the construction of Eppendorf Hospital, becoming head of its surgical department in 1888.
In 1895 he was chosen professor of surgery at the University of Bonn.
Schede was a pioneer of antisepsis in Germany. In 1890 he introduced a surgical procedure called thoracoplasty, an operation involving resection of the thorax for treatment of chronic empyema.
His name is associated with the "Schede method", also known as "Schede's clot", a procedure that involves scraping off dead tissue in bone necrosis, allowing the cavity to fill with blood, then covering it with gauze and rubber.In 1874 he was a co-founder of the journal "Zentralblatt für Chirurgie".