Walter Hermann von Heineke

Walter Hermann von Heineke was a German surgeon. He was the son of physician Karl Friedrich Heineke.
He studied at the Universities of Göttingen, Berlin, Leipzig and Greifswald, where he was a student and assistant to Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben. At Greifswald he obtained his doctorate in 1858 and his habilitation for surgery in 1863. From 1867 to 1901 he was a professor of surgery at the University of Erlangen.
With Polish surgeon Jan Mikulicz-Radecki, the eponymous "Heineke-Mikulicz pyloroplasty" is named, which is a surgical procedure that involves enlargement of the pyloric stricture.

Written works

Heineke was the author of Compendium der Operations- und Verbandlehre, a work that was published in three editions. His Chirurgische Krankheiten des Kopfes was included in Pitha and Billroth's "Handbuch der allgemeinen und speciellen Chirurgie". Other noted writings by Heineke are:Beiträge zur Kenntnis und Behandlung der Krankheiten des Knies, 1866 - Contributions to the knowledge and treatment of diseases of the knees.Anatomie und Pathologie der Schleimbeutel und Sehnenscheiden, 1868 - Anatomy and pathology of the bursa and tendon sheaths.Die chirurgischen Krankheiten des Kopfes. Stuttgart, 1882. XLII + 252 pages, in Billroth and Lücke's "Deutsche Chirurgie". - Surgical diseases of the head.