Louis Stromeyer

Georg Friedrich Louis Stromeyer (March 6, 1804 – June 15, 1876) was a German surgeon. He was born and died in Hanover. He was the son of surgeon Christian Friedrich Stromeyer (1761–1824).

Biography
From 1823 he studied medicine at the University of Göttingen, receiving his doctorate in Berlin in 1826. In Göttingen he joined the German student Corps Hannovera. After graduation he undertook scientific travels throughout Europe, returning to Hanover in 1828, where he taught classes at the surgical school and founded an orthopedic institite. From 1838 to 1840 he was a professor of surgery at the University of Erlangen, followed by professorships at Munich (1841–42), Freiburg (1842–48) and Kiel.

He was a military surgeon during the First War of Schleswig (1848–1851), and served as Surgeon General of the Kingdom Hanover in the German war and with the Prussian army during the Franco-Prussian War.

Stromeyer was a pioneer in orthopedics and orthopedic surgery. In 1831 he performed the first subcutaneous tenotomy (tendon surgery) of the Achilles tendon on a deformed foot. He introduced tenotomic surgery to England through a friend, English surgeon William John Little (1810–1894). Stromeyer performed the operation on Dr. Little in order to correct a clubfoot condition. Stromeyer also did maxillofacial surgery, being remembered for the eponymous "Stromeyer hook", a device used for zygomatic arch fractures.

Works

 * Handbuch der Chirurgie, 1864.
 * Maximen der Kriegsheilkunst, 1868.
 * Erinnerungen eines deutschen Arztes, two volumes, 1875, ISBN 3-540-07659-X

Source

 * aerzteblatt.de Georg Friedrich Louis Stromeyer (translated biography)
 * translated biography @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie