Fedor Krause

Fedor Krause (1857 to 1937) was a German neurosurgeon, a native of Friedland in Lower Silesia. He first studied music at the Berlin Conservatoire before turning to medicine, took his doctorate in Berlin, and became assistant to Richard von Volkmann at Halle. He later worked in Frankfurt, Hamburg-Altona and Berlin, becoming an associate professor at the University of Berlin in 1901. With Otfrid Foerster he introduced operations for epilepsy into Germany and performed over 400 such operations, and he was an early user of electrical stimulation of the cerebral cortex during surgery. The Hartley-Krause operation, which removes the Gasserian ganglion to relieve trigeminal neuralgia, bears his name, and the German Neurosurgical Society awards a Fedor Krause Medal.