Eugen Enderlen

Eugen Enderlen, who lived from 21 January 1863 to 7 June 1940, was a German physician and surgeon born in Salzburg, Austria. He received his medical doctorate from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen in 1888 and habilitated at the University of Greifswald in 1895. He then worked at Marburg, became an associate professor in 1899, and took the chair of surgery at the University of Basel in 1904. In 1908 he moved to the University Hospital at Wurzburg, served as a general physician during World War I, and in 1918 became professor of surgery at Heidelberg University. He specialized in many surgical procedures, among them surgery of the nerves and blood vessels and operations for ulcers and gallstone disorders, and he developed new techniques in esophageal surgery. With the physiologist Ludolf von Krehl he performed stellate ganglion blocks and denervation operations on the heart, and he conducted experimental research on the transplantation of blood vessels, bones and joints. He died in Stuttgart at the age of 77.