Louis Stromeyer

Georg Friedrich Louis Stromeyer (6 March 1804 – 15 June 1876) was a German surgeon.

[1] From 1823, Stromeyer studied medicine at the University of Göttingen, receiving his doctorate in Berlin in 1826.

After graduation he undertook scientific travels throughout Europe, returning to Hanover in 1828, where he taught classes at the surgical school and founded an orthopedic institute.

From 1838 to 1840 he was a professor of surgery at the University of Erlangen, followed by professorships at Munich (1841–42), Freiburg (1842–48) and Kiel.

He introduced tenotomic surgery to England through a friend, English surgeon William John Little (1810–1894).