Bernhard Moritz Carl Ludwig Riedel (18 September 1846 – 12 September 1916) was a German surgeon, who was a native of Teschentin, Grossherzogtum Mecklenburg.

Biography

He graduated from the University of Rostock in 1872, and for the next three years was prosector at Rostock under Friedrich Sigmund Merkel (1845-1919). In 1875, he became an assistant to Franz König (1832-1910) in Göttingen, where he was habilitated for surgery in 1877. In the ensuing years, he studied surgery with Bernhard von Langenbeck (1810-1887) and Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben (1819-1895), later being appointed chief physician of the surgical department at the Städtisches Krankenhaus in Aachen (1881). In 1888, he became director of the surgical clinic at the University of Jena. Riedel was a pioneer in the surgical treatment of appendicitis and cholecystitis. In 1888, he performed the first choledochoduodenostomy (anastomosis of the common bile duct to the duodenum). His name is lent to the following medical eponyms:

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