Walter Hermann von Heineke was a German surgeon, born in Schönebeck in 1834 and died in Erlangen in 1901. He was the son of the physician Karl Friedrich Heineke. He studied at the universities of Göttingen, Berlin, Leipzig and Greifswald, where he was a student and assistant to Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben, took his doctorate in 1858 and gained his habilitation in surgery in 1863. From 1867 until his death in 1901 he was professor of surgery at the University of Erlangen. His name survives in the Heineke-Mikulicz pyloroplasty, a surgical procedure that widens a narrowed pyloric outlet of the stomach, named jointly for him and the Polish surgeon Jan Mikulicz-Radecki.
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17 May 1834, in Schönebeck, 28 April 1901, in Erlangen
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was a German surgeon
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From 1867 to 1901 he was a professor of surgery at the University of Erlangen.
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From 1867 to 1901 he was a professor of surgery at the University of Erlangen.
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