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Friedrich Lange (20 March 1849 – 14 May 1927) was a German surgeon and supporter of charitable institutions. He was a fraternity member of the Burschenschaft Gothia Königsberg. ==Life== Friedrich Lange was born in Lonkorrek, West Prussia, the son of Eduard Lange, a local councillor and leaseholder. He studied medicine at the Albertus-Universität Königsberg and served as a hospital orderly in the Franco-Prussian War. He then worked as a surgeon in Königsberg and Kiel. After his marriage in 1891 he and Adele Thiel moved to New York City, initially working as senior physician in the surgery department of a German hospital, then in the ''Bellevue Hospital'' and finally as a consultant in the NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital. After founding his own clinic, he became famous as a 'pioneer of German surgery in America' and for introducing asepsis to America. In 1900 he returned to Germany and made a large donation to the Palästra Albertina in Königsberg. In Neumark he founded the Kreiskrankenhaus for Kreis Löbau. In Bischofswerder he established a hospice for the disabled. In Lonkorrek he founded a library and a Protestant church. He died of a stroke in a sanatorium in Potsdam-Babelsberg. A sports ground was named after him on Samitter Allee near Tragheimer Palve in Königsberg.〔Robert Albinus: ''Königsberg-Lexikon''. Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Friedrich Lange (surgeon)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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