Karl Ludwig Ernst Friedrich Schroeder (September 11, 1838, Neustrelitz

Neustrelitz

Neustrelitz is a town in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is situated on the shore of the Zierker See in the Mecklenburg Lake District. From 1738 until 1918 it was the capital of the duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz...

 - February 7, 1887) was a German gynecologist . He studied medicine at the Universities of Würzburg

University of Würzburg

The University of Würzburg is a university in Würzburg, Germany, founded in 1402. The university is a member of the distinguished Coimbra Group.-Name:...

 and Rostock

University of Rostock

The University of Rostock is the university of the city Rostock, in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.Founded in 1419, it is the oldest and largest university in continental northern Europe and the Baltic Sea area...

. He earned his doctorate in 1864, and became an assistant to Gustav Veit

Gustav Veit

Aloys Constantin Conrad Gustav Veit was a German gynecologist and obstetrician who was a native of Leobschütz. He was the father of gynecologist Johann Veit ....

 (1824-1903) at the University of Bonn

University of Bonn

The University of Bonn is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany. Founded in its present form in 1818, as the linear successor of earlier academic institutions, the University of Bonn is today one of the leading universities in Germany. The University of Bonn offers a large number...

. Afterwards he practiced medicine at the University of Erlangen and at the Charité

Charité

The Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin is the medical school for both the Humboldt University and the Free University of Berlin. After the merger with their fourth campus in 2003, the Charité is one of the largest university hospitals in Europe....

 in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

. At Erlangen

Erlangen

Erlangen is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. It is located at the confluence of the river Regnitz and its large tributary, the Untere Schwabach.Erlangen has more than 100,000 inhabitants....

 he succeeded Eugen Rosshirt

Eugen Rosshirt

Johann Eugen Rosshirt was a German obstetrician and gynecologist who was a native of Oberscheinfeld.He studied medicine at the University of Würzburg, where he earned his doctorate in 1818...

 (1795-1872) in 1869 as professor of obstetrics, and at the Charité, Schroeder was director of the gynecology clinic.

Schroeder was a catalyst concerning construction of the clinic of gynecology and obstetrics

Obstetrics

Obstetrics is the medical specialty dealing with the care of all women's reproductive tracts and their children during pregnancy , childbirth and the postnatal period...

 at the Berlin-Charité. It first opened in 1881, and was constructed with an emphasis on hygiene

Hygiene

Hygiene refers to the set of practices perceived by a community to be associated with the preservation of health and healthy living. While in modern medical sciences there is a set of standards of hygiene recommended for different situations, what is considered hygienic or not can vary between...

 and antisepsis. In 1870 he published an important textbook on midwifery

Midwifery

Midwifery is a health care profession in which providers offer care to childbearing women during pregnancy, labour and birth, and during the postpartum period. They also help care for the newborn and assist the mother with breastfeeding....

 that was later translated into English. Schroeder specialized in research of gynecological diseases, and is remembered for his surgical

Surgery

Surgery is an ancient medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, or to help improve bodily function or appearance.An act of performing surgery may be called a surgical...

 work with vaginal

Vaginal cancer

Vaginal cancer is any type of cancer that forms in the tissues of the vagina. Primary vaginal cancer is rare in the general population of women and is usually a squamous carcinoma. Metastases are more common. Vaginal cancer occurs more often in women over age 50, but can occur at any age, even in...

 and endometrial cancer

Endometrial cancer

Endometrial cancer refers to several types of malignancies that arise from the endometrium, or lining, of the uterus. Endometrial cancers are the most common gynecologic cancers in the United States, with over 35,000 women diagnosed each year. The incidence is on a slow rise secondary to the...

s. The eponymous Schroeder's operation is another name for excision of diseased endocervical mucosa

Canal of the cervix

In the anatomy of the female reproductive system, the canal of the cervix is the spindle-shaped, flattened canal of the cervix, the neck of the uterus.It communicates with the uterine cavity via the internal orifice of the uterus, and with the vagina via the...

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Selected works

• Lehrbuch der Geburtshülfe mit Einschluss der Pathologie der Schwangerschaft und des Wochenbettes. 1870; (A Manual of midwifery: Including the Pathology of the Pregnancy and the Puerperal State) Cohen, Bonn.
• Krankheiten der weiblichen Geschlechtsorgane. (In: Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen
  Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen
  Hugo von Ziemssen was a German physician, born at Greifswald. He studied there, at Berlin, and at Würzburg. In 1863 he was called to Erlangen as professor of pathology and director of the clinic, and in 1874 to Munich as director of the general hospital...
  
  : Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie. Bd. 10) Vogel, Leipzig 1874.