Franz König (surgeon)

[1] In 1855 he received his doctorate from the University of Marburg, and was later district wound surgeon (Amtswundarzt) in Hanau.

Afterwards he was a professor of surgery at the universities of Rostock (from 1869) and Göttingen (from 1875), and eventually at the Charité-Berlin, where in 1895 he succeeded Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben.

König is largely remembered for his work in bone and joint surgery.

He was the first surgeon to perform a successful internal fixation of proximal femur fractures.

In his paper, König concluded:[4] König named the disease "osteochondritis dissecans",[5] describing it as a subchondral inflammatory process of the knee, resulting in a loose fragment of cartilage from the femoral condyle.