Hermann Krukenberg

Hermann Krukenberg {June 21, 1863 - October 3, 1935) was a German surgeon who was a native of Calbe. 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".

References

* [http://www.oandplibrary.org/alp/chap36-01.asp Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics]
* [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=Krukenberg+1899+Liegnitz&spell=1 Die Geschichte der Armprothese, Biographical Information (in German)]
* [http://lib.bioinfo.pl/pmid:9816514 BioInfo Bank Library, modified Krukenberg operation]
* [http://www.antiqbook.com/boox/gac/081792.shtml AntiQbook, "Gesichtsausdruck des Menschen"]