Frederick Strange Kolle

Born in Hanover, Germany, Frederick Strange Kolle was a German-American physician and author whose career spanned several fast-changing areas of medicine. Sources connected with his work describe him as an early specialist in radiography and plastic surgery, and his published writing reflects both interests.

He wrote medical books including The X Rays: Their Production and Application and Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery, works that helped document techniques and ideas from the turn of the twentieth century. Today he is remembered less as a literary figure than as a medically trained writer whose books preserve the language, ambitions, and uncertainties of an important era in surgical history.

Public records and library listings identify his lifespan as 1871 to 1929. A portrait associated with him survives on Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource.