Background

Frederick Strange Kolle was born on November 22, 1872 in Hanover, Germany. He was the son of Johann A. and Bertha (Schaare) Kolle.

Education

Having received a German common-school education he emigrated to Brooklyn, where he entered the Long Island College Hospital Medical School, from which he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1893.

Career

Kolle served as assistant in the ear department of the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital and in 1893-94 he was interne in the Kings County Hospital. During 1894 he was also an assistant physician to the Brooklyn Hospital for Contagious Diseases. In the same year he opened an office in Brooklyn.

He became so familiar with the medical uses of electricity that in 1896 he was engaged to teach this branch in the Electrical Engineering Institute of Brooklyn and in the following year was made associate editor of the Electrical Age, a position which he held for five years.

In 1896 he became interested in the then recent discovery of Rentgen rays and in 1898 published a booklet, The X-Rays; Their Production and Application, and received the appointment of radiographer to the Methodist Episcopal Hospital of Brooklyn. He did much to develop the technique of the new art and invented numerous devices, comprising a radiometer, the Kolle X-ray switching device, the dentaskiascope, folding fluoroscope, an X-ray printing process, the Kolle focus tube, and a direct-reading X-ray meter. At a somewhat later period he developed an interest in subcutaneous paraffin injections for cosmetic purposes and in 1908 published Subcutaneous Hydrocarbon Prostheses. This resource did not become a permanent one and Kolle was influenced in the direction of plastic and cosmetic surgery, in which he made numerous technical advances and devised new instruments and apparatus.

The First World War greatly enhanced the interest in this subject and Kolle's technique was largely employed by the military surgeons. In 1913 he compiled The Physicians' Who's Who, a reference work for the profession, which he dedicated to the memory of his former surgical teacher George Ryerson Fowler. After 1914 Kolle withdrew entirely from public notice. He made no attempt to issue successive editions of his surgical and reference works and during and after the World War was conspicuous only by his absence from medical literature. It is known that his health failed and that he removed to Los Angeles, where he seems to have engaged only in general practice, if at all. Having developed a cancerous affection of the stomach, he came East and his death took place in St. Luke's Hospital, New York. Early in his career he showed a penchant for writing, published several books for children, among them Fifty and One Tales of Modern Fairyland (1905, 1910), and wrote a scientific novel, "Olaf. "

Achievements

• Frederick Strange Kolle invented x-ray. He published his major work, Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery, which gave him a wide reputation.

Works

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  • The X rays. Their production and application

    (This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)

  • Subcutaneous Hydrocarbon Protheses

    (This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)

  • Pen Lyrics

    (This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)

  • Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery (Classic Reprint)

    (The importance of this branch of practice is at the prese...)

  • Axel And Valborg: A Historical Tragedy In Five Acts (1906)

    (This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of th...)

  • Physician's who's who, New York State Section

    (This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)

Connections

In 1899 he married Loretto Elaine Duffy, by whom he had two sons and a daughter.

Father:

Johann A. Kolle

Mother:

Bertha (Schaare) Kolle

Spouse:

Loretto Elaine Duffy