Georg Albert Lücke

Georg Albert Lücke (4 June 1829 – 20 February 1894) was a German surgeon born in Magdeburg.

He studied medicine at the Universities of Hedielberg, Göttingen and Halle, and following graduation travelled abroad to France, Italy and Algeria. In 1860 he became an assistant to Bernhard von Langenbeck, and in 1864 gained battle-related surgical experience during the Second Schleswig War. From 1865 to 1872 he was a professor of surgery at the University of Bern, and from 1872 held a similar position at the University of Strassburg.

Lücke was a prodigious writer who published articles on all aspects of surgery. Some of his better known writings were on battle-related surgery, diseases of the thyroid gland and papers involving various tumors. With Theodor Billroth he was co-author of Deutsche Chirurgie, and with Carl Hueter was co-founder of the journal Deutsche Zeitschrift für Chirurgie (1872).

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