Georg Ledderhose
German surgeon
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Georg Otto Ledderhose was a German surgeon, professor and pioneering traumatologist. Biography Early life He was born in the Bockenheim district of Frankfurt am Main. His father was the politician and university rector Karl Ledderhose and his mother was Wilhelmine Justine Charlotte . Wilhelmine's father was Johann Georg Heinrich Pfeiffer , the third son of Johann Jakob Pfeiffer, and brother of Burkhard Wilhelm, Carl Jonas, and Franz Georg Pfeiffer. Two of Ledderhose's uncles, the husbands of his mother's sisters, were the chemist Friedrich Wöhler and the jurist Otto Bähr, and another of his mother's sisters was the mother of the Prussian cavalry general Adolf von Deines. At the time of Georg's birth, his father Carl was serving as a magistrate in the Hessian municipal court, and by 1865, when Georg was only ten years old, Karl had risen to the rank of Electoral Finance minister. By 1871, Karl had been appointed vice president of the Prussian province of Alsace-Lorraine, as well as rector of the University of Strasbourg, and he would hold the latter position until 1887.
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