Georg Ledderhose (15 December 1855, Bockenheim, Regierungsbezirk Wiesbaden, Germany – 1 February 1925,

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, Germany) was a German surgeon. Ledderhose studied in

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Georg Albert Lücke Georg Albert Lücke (4 June 1829 – 20 February 1894) was a German surgeon born in Magdeburg. He studied medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg, Göttingen and Halle, and following graduation traveled abroad to France, Italy and Alger ...

(1829–1894), receiving his medical doctorate in 1880 and later working in Strasbourg hospital as a surgeon. He became ''Professor for Surgery'' in Strasbourg in 1891. He later worked in Munich, where he became honorary professor. In 1876, Ledderhose discovered glycosamine whilst working on cartilage with Ernst Felix Immanuel Hoppe-Seyler (1825–1895) in Strassburg. Although first identified by him, the

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of the compound was not fully defined until 1939 by the work of

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. Ledderhose was the first to describe the condition of '' plantar

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'' in 1894, which was later known as Ledderhose's disease.

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