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Fedor Krause (10 March 1857 – in Friedland in Niederschlesien; 20 September 1937 in ) was a German who was native of Friedland ().


Biography
He originally studied music at the Conservatoire in , and later switched to medicine, earning his doctorate at Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1883 he became a medical assistant to Richard von Volkmann (1830-1889) at the university clinic at Halle. Afterwards, he was a at the Senckenberg Institute in Frankfurt am Main (1890–92), a surgeon at the city hospital at (1892-1900), and later head of the surgical department at Augusta Hospital in Berlin. In 1901 he became an associate professor at the University of Berlin. While in Berlin, he worked closely with Hermann Oppenheim (1858-1919) and he lived on island .

During World War I he served as a surgical consultant, and following the war embarked on scientific journeys to , where he introduced neurosurgical practices into several countries. In 1931 Krause retired from medicine, devoting his last years to artistic and musical pursuits in .


Contributions in surgery
Krause was a pioneer in the field of , and with (1873-1941) was responsible for introducing surgical operations for treatment of into . During his career he performed over 400 operations on epileptic patients. He is also remembered for his work in and reconstructive surgery, and was an early practitioner of intraoperative electrostimulation of the .

He developed a number of operative techniques involving of the and . 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 the field of neurosurgery.


Written works
  • Über die Verwendung großer ungestielter Hautlappen zu plastischen Zwecken, (Concerning the use of large sessile skin flaps for plastic surgery), 1896.
  • Chirurgie des Gehirns und Rückenmarks (Surgery of the brain and spinal cord), two volumes 1907 (later translated into English and French).
  • Chirurgische Operationslehre des Kopfes (Surgical lessons involving the head), 2 volumes, Berlin 1912 and 1914.
  • Die allgemeine Chirurgie der Gehirnkrankheiten (General surgery of brain diseases), with K. Heymann, 2 volumes, Berlin 1914.
  • Die Tuberkulose der Knochen und Gelenke ( of the bones and joints), 1891 (later translated into English).
  • Lehrbuch der chirurgischen Operationen (Textbook of surgery), Berlin 1912–1914 (later translated into Russian, English and Spanish).

  • 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,


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