Bernhard Moritz Carl Ludwig Riedel

[1] In 1875, he became an assistant to Franz König (1832-1910) in Göttingen, where he was habilitated for surgery in 1877.

In the ensuing years, he studied surgery with Bernhard von Langenbeck (1810-1887) and Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben (1819-1895), later being appointed chief physician of the surgical department at the Städtisches Krankenhaus in Aachen (1881).

Riedel was a pioneer in the surgical treatment of appendicitis and cholecystitis.

[2] In 1888, he performed the first choledochoduodenostomy (anastomosis of the common bile duct to the duodenum).

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