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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Bernhard von Langenbeck Biography LANGENBECK, läng'en-bĕk, Bernhard Rudolph von (1810–87). A German surgeon, nephew and pupil of Konrad Johann Martin Langenbeck, born at Pardingbüttel. He studied at Göttingen, then visited France and England, and, after teaching for some time at Göttingen, was called in 1842 to the chair of surgery in the University of Kiel. In 1847 he succeeded Dieffenbach at the Berlin Clinical Institute of Surgery. He soon acquired a world-wide reputation, first through skill and success in operations for harelip; then in plastic surgery of the nose, eyelid, and lip; and finally by his noted methods of resection (q.v.), in which only the diseased or injured part of a bone is removed, instead of amputation of the entire limb. For services in the war with Denmark a grant of nobility was accorded him, and he received in 1866 the highest medical rank the Prussian army affords. Langenbeck was in active medical military service during the German campaigns of 1866 and 1870-71. Beginning with 1860, Langenbeck edited, with Billroth and Gurlt, the Archiv für klinische Chirurgie, and he published, besides numerous papers on surgical topics, Chirurgische Beobachtungen aus dem Kriege (Berlin, 1874). The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. XIII (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920) 540. |