Louis Stromeyer

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Louis Georg Friedrich Stromeyer (1804-1876) was a German surgeon who was born in Hanover. After receiving his doctorate from Berlin in 1823, he spent his career in several European cities, but is largely known for his work done in Hanover. He was also a military surgeon during the First War of Schleswig (1848-1851).

Stromeyer was a pioneer in orthopedics and orthopedic surgery. In 1831 he performed the first subcutaneous tenotomy (tendon surgery) of the Achilles tendon on a deformed foot. He introduced tenotomic surgery to England through a friend, English surgeon William John Little (1810-1894). Stromeyer performed this operation on Dr. Little in order to correct his clubfoot condition. Stromeyer also did maxillofacial surgery, and is remembered for the eponymous "Stromeyer hook", a device used for zygomatic arch fractures.