Walter Hermann von Heineke

Who is 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.