Ludwig Heusner

Ludwig Heusner (28 November 1843 in Boppard – 27 January 1916 in Giessen) was a German surgeon.

He studied medicine at the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg, Würzburg, Bonn and Kiel, receiving his doctorate in 1868.

He served as an assistant physician during the Franco-Prussian War, and following the end of hostilities, settled as a general practitioner in Barmen (presently part of the city of Wuppertal).

[1] In 1898 he co-founded the Vereinigung Niederrheinisch-Westfälischer Chirurgen (Union of Lower Rhenish-Westphalian surgeons).

In 1904 he was appointed president of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädie (German Society for Orthopedics).