Max Runge

Heinrich Max Runge (21 September 1849 to 27 July 1909) was a German obstetrician and gynecologist, born in Stettin. He studied medicine at the universities of Jena, Leipzig, Bonn and Strasbourg and took his doctorate at Strasbourg in 1875. In 1879 he obtained his habilitation in Berlin under the sponsorship of Adolf Gusserow. In 1883 he became professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Imperial University of Dorpat, and five years later he moved to Göttingen as professor, where he served as dean of the university on three occasions. Runge wrote influential textbooks on both obstetrics and gynecology. His research dealt with hot water therapy for uterine atony, the treatment of puerperal fever, fetal disease, umbilical infections and laparotomy. He died in Göttingen in 1909.