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Albert Henry Freiberg

by Dr Mike Cadogan, last update December 4, 2018

Albert Henry Freiberg (1868 - 1940)

Albert Henry Freiberg (1868 – 1940) was an American Orthopedic Surgeon. Eponymously associated with Freiberg infraction

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
  • Chairman of the Professional Advisory Committee on Crippled Children, Ohio.
  • Died 14 July 1940 Cincinnati, Ohio

Medical Eponyms

  • Freiberg infraction (1914) 

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]

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