Walter Hermann von Heineke

Walter Hermann von Heineke (17 May 1834, in Schönebeck – 28 April 1901, in Erlangen) was a German surgeon.

He studied at the Universities of Göttingen, Berlin, Leipzig and Greifswald, where he was a student and assistant to Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben (1819–1895).

With Polish surgeon Jan Mikulicz-Radecki (1850–1905), the eponymous "Heineke-Mikulicz pyloroplasty" is named, which is a surgical procedure that involves enlargement of the pyloric stricture.

[1] Heineke was the author of Compendium der Operations- und Verbandlehre (Compendium of operations and dressing instruction), a work that was published in three editions (1871, 1874 and 1885).

His Chirurgische Krankheiten des Kopfes was included in Pitha and Billroth's "Handbuch der allgemeinen und speciellen Chirurgie" (1873, Volume III-1/1/2).