Richard von Volkmann

Richard von Volkmann (17 August 1830 – 28 November 1889) was a prominent German surgeon and author of poetry and fiction.

[1] Richard entered medical school in Berlin and graduated in 1854.

In 1867 he was appointed Professor of Surgery and Director of the Surgical Clinic at Halle where he remained until retirement.

He edited (1870–89) Beiträge zur Chirurgie, and contributed to Franz von Pitha and Theodor Billroth's Handbuch der Chirurgie a section on diseases of the locomotory organs (1865–72).

He wrote Bemerkungen über einige vom Krebs zu trennende Geschwülste (1858).