Otto Hildebrand

Otto Hildebrand (15 November 1858, in Bern – 18 October 1927, in Berlin) was a German pathologist and surgeon.

In 1888 he obtained his habilitation for surgery, and in 1896 was named head of the surgical polyclinic at the Berlin-Charité.

In 1899 he succeeded August Socin as a professor of surgery at the University of Basel, then in 1904 returned to Berlin as successor to his former mentor, Franz König, at the Charité.

[1][2] His best written effort was on book on surgical and topographical anatomy, titled Grundriss der chirurgisch-topographischen Anatomie (1894).

He was editor of the periodical Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der Chirurgie and the author of several biographies in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.