Ludwig Rehn

Ludwig Rehn was a German surgeon, born in Bad Sooden-Allendorf on 13 April 1849 and dead on 29 May 1930. He is best known as the first surgeon to perform a successful heart surgery, which is the achievement his name is chiefly remembered for. The source article is brief and gives his full name as Ludwig Wilhelm Carl Rehn, his birthplace and his dates, together with that single claim to fame. The Atlas therefore records him as a German surgeon of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries whose place in the history of medicine rests on the first successful heart surgery, and leaves the details of the operation and the rest of his career for later depth work.