Fedor Krause

Fedor Krause (March 10, 1857 - September 20, 1937) was a German neurosurgeon who was native of Friedland (Upper Silesia). Krause originally studied music at the Conservatoire in Berlin, and later switched to medicine, earning his doctorate at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 1883 be became a medical assistant to Richard von Volkmann (1830-1889 at the surgical university clinic at Halle, Saxony-Anhalt. Afterwards, he was a pathologist at the Senckenberg Institute in Frankfurt am Main (1890-92), a surgeon at the city hospital at Hamburg-Altona (1892-1900), and later the head of the surgical department at the Augusta Hospital in Berlin. In 1901 he became a professor (extraordinary) at the University of Berlin. After retiring from medicine, Krause dedicated himself to artistic and musical pursuits in Rome.

Krause was a pioneer in the field of neurosurgery, and along with Otfrid Foerster, he is credited with introducing English physician Victor Horsley's procedures concerning epileptic surgery to Germany. He is also known for his work in plastic and reconstructive surgery, as well as his operations of the frontal lobe.

He developed several operative techniques concerning tumors of the brain and nervous system, and with Hermann Oppenheim (1858-1919), he is credited with performing the first successful removal of a pineal tumor. The eponymous Hartley-Krause operation is named after Krause and surgeon Frank Hartley (1857-1913). This procedure involves an excision of the Gasserian ganglion and its roots to relieve trigeminal neuralgia.

Today the German Neurosurgical Society awards the Fedor Krause Medal for outstanding work in this profession.

Works

*"Über die Verwendung großer ungestielter Hautlappen zu plastischen Zwecken", 1896
*"Chirurgie des Gehirns und Rückenmarks", 2 Bände, Berlin 1907 (translated also to English and French)
*"Chirurgische Operationslehre des Kopfes", 2 volumes, Berlin 1912 and 1914
*"Die allgemeine Chirurgie der Gehirnkrankheiten", with K. Heymann, 2 volumes, Berlin 1914
*"Die Tuberkulose der Knochen und Gelenke", 1891 (Translated into English)
*"Lehrbuch der chirurgischen Operationen", Berlin 1912–1914 (Translated into Russian, English and Spanish)

References

*Archiv der Leopoldina (Catalogus professorum) MM 3804 Krause;
*NDB Band 12, S. 700.
*C. M. Behrend: "Fedor Krause und die Neurochirurgie". Zbl. Neurochir. (1938) 3/2. Leipzig, S. 53-135,

External links

* [http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:lSsk4XyjulwJ:www.catalogus-professorum-halensis.de/krausefedor.html+%22Fedor+Krause%22+leopoldina&hl=de&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=de Entry in "Catalogus professorum" of the Leopoldina]

References

* "This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia."