Georg Kelling
German surgeon
title: "Georg Kelling" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1866-births", "1945-deaths", "german-surgeons", "physicians-from-dresden", "german-civilians-killed-in-world-war-ii", "deaths-by-american-airstrikes-during-world-war-ii", "deaths-by-british-airstrikes-during-world-war-ii"] description: "German surgeon" topic_path: "history" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Kelling" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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Georg Kelling (7 July 1866 – 14 February 1945) was a German internist and surgeon who was a laparoscopy pioneer and in 1901 performed the first laparoscopic surgery on a dog.
He studied medicine at the Universities of Leipzig and Berlin. He earned his medical doctorate in 1890, and later worked as a physician at the city hospital in Dresden. In the 1890s, Kelling devised an esophagoscope
Kelling specialized in gastrointestinal physiology and anatomy. He is credited with performing the first laparoscopic examination, a procedure he referred to as "celioscopy". In 1901 he performed the procedure on the abdomen of a dog using a Nitze-cystoscope. Prior to cystoscopic viewing of the abdomen, Kelling insufflated it with filtered air via a device known as a trocar. Insufflation was used to create a pneumoperitoneum in order to prevent intra-abdominal bleeding.
Kelling and his wife were killed during the Allied bombing of Dresden in 1945.
References
References
- [http://www.generalsurgerynews.com/PrintArticle.aspx?A_Id=22855&D_Id=69&D=In+the+News General Surgery News]
- "Laparoscopy--the early attempts: spotlighting Georg Kelling and Hans Christian Jacobaeus". JSLS.
- "Georg Kelling und die sächsischen Wurzeln der Laparoskopie".
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