Albert Henry Freiberg

Biography

• Born 17 August 1868 Cincinnati, Ohio
• 1890 – MD Medical College of Ohio (now the University of Cincinnati Medical School)
• Studied in Wurzburg, Strassburg, Berlin, Paris, Vienna and London during his graduate years
• 1902-1939 Professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio
• 1910 – President of the American Orthopedic Association
• 1914-1918 WWI Rank of Major n the U.S. Army Medical corps. Member of the advisory council on orthopedic surgery at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington DC
• Director of orthopedic surgery services at the Cincinnati General, Jewish and Children’s hospitals in Cincinnati
• Died 14 July 1940 Cincinnati, Ohio

Medical Eponyms

• Freiberg infraction (1914) osteochondrosis of the metatarsal heads (typically the 2nd metatarsal head) characterized pathologically by subchondral bone collapse, osteonecrosis, and cartilaginous fissures

Major Publications

• Freiberg AH. Infraction of the second metatarsal – a typical injury. Transactions of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association 1914;26:171-174. [Freiberg infraction]
• Freiberg AH. The so-called infraction of the second metatarsal bone. J Bone Joint Surg 1926; 8: 257-61.

References

• Freiberg Family Papers. American Jewish Archives Collection No. 716
• Hunter TB, Peltier LF, Lund PJ. Radiologic history exhibit. Musculoskeletal eponyms: who are those guys? RadioGraphics 2000; 20: 819-36. [Full Text]