Heinrich Hilgenreiner

Heinrich Hilgenreiner (1870 to 1954) was a German surgeon and orthopedist, born in Prague into a German family in Bohemia. He served as a medical officer in the First World War and afterwards became a professor at the German Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague and director of its children clinic. He became a specialist in diagnosing and treating congenital dislocation of the hip joint in infants and young children, and the system of lines he drew on an x-ray to diagnose that condition is still known as Hilgenreiner line. In 1946 he was forced to leave Czechoslovakia for Austria, where he lived until his death in Spillern in 1954. He was the younger brother of the theologian and politician Karl Hilgenreiner.