Heinrich Hilgenreiner

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Heinrich Hilgenreiner (* 1870 Prague, * 1954 Spillern/Austria) German surgeon and orthopaedist.

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[edit] Biography

Born and raised in a German family in Bohemia (which at the time was part of the Habsburg monarchy), he served as a medical officer in the First World War. After the War, he became a professor of the Charles University in Prague and Director of the Kinderklinik (childrens' clinic). In 1946 he was forced to leave Czechoslovakia for Austria, where he lived until his death. He was the younger brother of Karl Hilgenreiner, a theologian and politician, also professor at Charles University. He is the grandfather of the Austrian artist Gerhard Gleich.

[edit] Work

As a professor at the Karls-Universität in Prag, he became a specialist on the diagnosis and cure of congenital luxation of the hip joint in infants and young children. "Hilgenreiner's line" (in German: Hilgenreiners Hilfslinien; Hilgenreiners Beckenskiagramm) is a system of lines drawn on an x-ray used for the diagnosis of this condition.

[edit] Literature

Heinrich Hilgenreiner (1935) "Die angeborene Dysplasie der Hüfte: 10 Jahre Abduktionsschiene und Frühbehandlung der angeborenen Hüftverrenkung" Zeitschrift für orthopädische Chirurgie einschliesslich Heilgymnastik und Massage, Stuttgart, 63: 344-483.