Karl Ludwig Ernst Schroeder

Karl Ludwig Ernst Friedrich Schroeder (11 September 1838, Neustrelitz – 7 February 1887, Berlin) was a German gynecologist .

[1] He earned his doctorate in 1864, subsequently serving as an assistant to Gustav Veit (1824-1903) at the University of Bonn.

At Erlangen, he succeeded Eugen Rosshirt (1795-1872) as professor of obstetrics (1869), and at the Charité, Schroeder was director of the Frauenklinik.

Schroeder specialized in research of gynecological diseases, and is remembered for his surgical work with vaginal and endometrial cancers.

Among his better known students and assistants were: Carl Arnold Ruge (1846-1926), Johann Veit (1852-1917), Hermann Löhlein (1847-1901), Max Hofmeier (1854-1927) and Richard Frommel (1854-1912).