Georg Perthes

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Georg Clemens Perthes was a German surgeon and X-ray diagnostic pioneer who was born in Moers, Germany. In 1891 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Bonn, and later was surgeon in Bonn and Leipzig where he worked with Friedrich Trendelenburg (1844-1924). In 1910 he succeeded Paul von Bruns (1846-1916) as head of the surgical clinic at Tübingen. In 1900-01 he was a military surgeon at the German colonial seaport of Tsingtao (today known as Qingdao, …