1. Georg Otto Ledderhose was a German surgeon, professor and pioneering traumatologist.
12 Facts About Georg Ledderhose
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Georg Ledderhose made significant contributions to the fields of surgery, traumatology, and orthopedics throughout his career.
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Georg Ledderhose was born in the Bockenheim district of Frankfurt am Main.
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Georg Ledderhose's father was the politician and university rector Karl Ledderhose and his mother was Wilhelmine Justine Charlotte.
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In 1876, while at Gottingen, Georg Ledderhose was enjoying a dinner of lobster with his uncle Freidrich and his professor Felix Hoppe-Seyler, when his uncle suggested that he take the remains of the lobster back to the laboratory.
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Intrigued, Georg Ledderhose did so, and after exposing the chitinous shells to several compounds, he realized that a concentrated solution of hydrochloric acid caused the shells to dissolve and leave a residue of crystals.
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Georg Ledderhose later examined these crystals, and determining them to be a discovery new to science, christened them glycosamine.
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Georg Ledderhose received his medical degree from the University of Strasbourg in 1880, after which he practiced surgery at the Hopital Civil.
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In 1886, Georg Ledderhose was sent from Strasbourg to Paris, along with other eminent European doctors, including Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, to study the novel techniques of Dr Louis Pasteur.
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In 1890, Georg Ledderhose married Marie Caroline Pauline Emma Scharrer, great-granddaughter of the merchant, banker, and sometime burgermeister of Nuremberg Johannes Scharrer.
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In 1892, Georg Ledderhose was commissioned by the city of Strasbourg to create a or convalescent center, for those involved in traumatic accidents.
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Georg Ledderhose remained the director of the through the years of the First World War until November 1918, when the victorious French government expelled the majority of Germans living in the territory of Alsace-Lorraine.