Viktor Schmieden

Viktor Schmieden was a German surgeon born in Berlin.
In 1897 he earned his medical doctorate from the University of Bonn, and subsequently worked in hospitals in Göttingen, Berlin and Bonn. Later he was a professor at the Universities of Halle and Frankfurt.
Schmieden is remembered for his work with Franz Volhard in the establishment of pericardectomy for the treatment of constrictive pericarditis. Historically this procedure was referred to as "Schmieden's operation". He also made important contributions towards the treatment of hydrocephalus, and in 1926 identified that polyps of the colon were a precursor of colorectal cancer. He was a Generalarzt in the Wehrmacht during World War II.

Written works

Schmieden was the author of numerous works. With August Borchard, and with Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch, he published the sixth edition of Chirurgische Operationslehre by August Karl Gustav Bier, Heinrich Braun and Hermann Kümmell. Other noted worked by Schmieden include:Der chirurgische Operationskursus, ; 12th edition with A. W. Fischer in 1930; translated into English.Ueber Erkennung und Behandlung der Umklammerung des Herzens durch schwielige Parikarditis, with Franz Volhard. Klinische Wochenschrift, Berlin, 1923, 2: 5–9. First complete pericardectomy for constrictive pericarditis.Die theoretischen Grundlagen der Hyperaemiebehandlung; In: Handbuch der normalen und pathologischen Physiologie, volume 7, 2; Berlin, Die Geschichte der Laparotomie; Berlin,