Krukenberg, Friedrich Ernst (1871–1946)

English Names

Krukenberg, Friedrich Ernst

Original Names

Krukenberg, Friedrich Ernst

Date, Country/City of Birth

1 April 1871, Halle an der Saale, Germany

Date, City of Death

20 February 1946, Halle an der Saale, Germany

History of Life

Friedrich Ernst Krukenberg (1871–1946) was born in Halle an der Saale, Germany, in a family with great traditions in medicine. He was the youngest of seven children.

One of his brothers was the orthopedic surgeon Hermann Krukenberg (1863–1935) remembered for Krukenberg’s arm, Krukenberg’s chopstick, and Krukenberg’s method. Another one was Georg Heinrich Peter Krukenberg (1856–1899), who was a professor of gynecology at the University of Bonn. His father was a lawyer, and his grandfather was Peter Krukenberg (1788–1865), who was the son-in-law of Johann Christian Reil (1759–1813) the neuropathologist, who had an area of the brain named after him, the island of Reil, and should be remembered as a Goethe’s physician and as a pioneer of mental diseases,...