Roman Wreden

Roman Romanovich Wreden was a Russian and Soviet physician, field surgeon and orthopedist.

Biography

According to the Great Soviet and Great Russian Encyclopedias, Wreden was born on March 21st, 1867. However, some sources state that he was born on March 23rd.

In 1885, Wreden graduated from the First Saint-Petersburg Gymnasium with a gold medal and later in 1890, he also graduated from the Imperial Academy of Medical Surgery.

He spent three years training his skills further at the academy hospital's surgery clinic. After this in 1893, he successfully defended his dissertation to become a Doctor of Medicine.

From 1893 to 1896, Wreden was a junior resident at the Kiev Military Hospital, in charge of the surgical department. During his tenure here, he provided treatment to Mikhail Dragomirov.

From 1896 — he was a senior assistant at Vasily Ratimov's surgical clinic, and from 1898, he was a privatdozent and from 1900 to 1902, he served as the acting head of the department.

In 1902, he failed the competition for the position of head of the academy's surgical department, resigning from the academy.