Ludwig Heusner


Ludwig Heusner was a German surgeon.
He studied medicine at the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg, Würzburg, Bonn and Kiel, receiving his doctorate in 1868. He served as an assistant physician during the Franco-Prussian War, and following the end of hostilities, settled as a general practitioner in Barmen. In 1878 he was named senior physician at the hospital in Barmen, and in 1903 was awarded with the title of professor.
In 1898 he co-founded the Vereinigung Niederrheinisch-Westfälischer Chirurgen. In 1904 he was appointed president of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädie.
On 19 May 1892 he was the first surgeon to perform a successful repair of a gastric ulcer.

Selected writings