Date of birth: 21/08/1850

Date of death: 25/06/1920

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##BIOGRAPHY

Ludwik Rydygier was a Polish surgeon.

After studying at the medical universities in Krakow and Greifswald, he practiced in both private and university clinics.

As the chief of surgery at Krakow’s Jagiellonian University and later at Lwow University he performed and published the second partial gastrectomy for cancer in 1880, although the patient died on the postoperative night.

He was the first to perform a partial gastrectomy for gastric ulcer and proposed a new method for treating gastric and duodenal ulcers through gastrojejunal anastomosis in 1884. In 1900, he introduced an original method for prostate adenoma resection.

He also became rector of Lwow University in 1901/02 and organized the first congress of the Polish Society of Surgery.

His surgical methods in gastric surgery, as well as other fields, such as the rectal surgery, amputations, cardiosurgery, orthopedics, plastic surgery and urology, are still used today.