Max Schede

Max Schede was a German surgeon, born in Arnsberg in 1844 and dying in 1902. He studied medicine at Halle, Heidelberg and Zurich and received his doctorate in 1866. After serving as a doctor in the Austro-Prussian War he became an assistant to Richard von Volkmann at Halle, and he ran a field hospital in the Franco-Prussian War. He later headed the surgical department at Friedrichshain Hospital in Berlin, practiced at St. Georg Hospital in Hamburg, and helped bring about the construction of Eppendorf Hospital, where he led surgery from 1888. In 1895 he became professor of surgery at Bonn. Schede was a pioneer of antisepsis in Germany, introduced thoracoplasty in 1890 to treat chronic empyema, gave his name to a method of treating bone necrosis, and co-founded the Zentralblatt für Chirurgie in 1874.