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Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical Vol III, pg 342-345 FREDERIC W. SCHLUTZ, M. D. Dr. Frederic W. Schlutz, a man of superior scientific attainments who has made valuable contributions to medical literature, has specialized in pediatric practice for the past twelve years and ranks with the most distinguished physicians of Minne­apolis and the Northwest. He was born at Greene, Iowa, November 10, 1880, and is of German-French parentage. The father was graduated from the University of Marburg, Germany, after which he became a divinity student, completing part of his work in America. His life was devoted to the ministry. The maternal grand­father was one of the pioneers of Wisconsin, settling near Watertown, that state, where his daughter, Mrs. Schlutz, was born. In the acquirement of an education Frederic W. Schlutz attended the grammar schools of Iowa and Minnesota and the high school a Watertown, Wisconsin, while later he became a student at Wartburg College of Clinton, Iowa, which conferred upon him the A. B. degree in 1898. His medical training was received in the Uni­versity of Maryland, from which he was graduated in 1902. This was followed by a two years' interneship, one year of which was spent as senior interne in surgery, eight months as senior in obstetrics and four months as senior in medicine. For six months he was senior assistant in a mining hospital at Eveleth, Minnesota, and he engaged in general practice in this state for five and a half years. Having deter­mined to concentrate his attention upon a particular branch of the profession, he went abroad in 1909, becoming a student at the University of Berlin, which he at­tended for two semesters, receiving instruction in pediatrics from Drs. Heubner, Fin-kelstein, Meyer, Langstein and Keller, while his bio-chemical work was done with Drs. Edelstein and Langstein at the Kaiserin Augusta Victoria Haus at Charlottenburg, Germany. For a quarter of a year he attended the University of Strassburg, his instructor being Professor A. Czerny, and in 1910 he returned to the United States, well qualified to take up his special line of work. From 1910 until 1913 he acted as instructor in pediatrics at the University of Minnesota and from 1910 until 1912 he was instructor in bio-chemistry, while since 1914 he has been assistant professor in pediatrics at that institution. He is chief of the pediatric division and contagious services at the Minneapolis General Hospital and has a large private practice, being recognized as an authority on children's diseases, in the treatment of which he has been very successful. In 1913 he again took postgraduate work in Europe, attending the University of Kiel under Professor Birk for a quarter, spending an equal period under Professor A. Czerny at Berlin, Germany, and Professors Marfan, Combe, Nobe-court, Aviragnet and Netter at Paris, France, while for a short time he received in­struction from Dr. Thursfield, connected with the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, England. Since 1910 Dr. Schlutz has specialized in pediatric practice. He organized the Infant Welfare Work in Minneapolis in 1910 and was its medical di­rector for eight years. Dr. Schlutz is a deep and earnest student of his profession and as the years have passed he has read broadly, carrying his investigations far and wide into the realms of medical science. He is the author of numerous publications relating to his spe­cialty and is a frequent contributor to both foreign and American medical literature. On the 14th of June, 1905, Dr. Schlutz was united in marriage to Miss Emma Margaret Handke of Evanston, Illinois, and they have a daughter, Margaret. On the 30th of October, 1918, Dr. Schlutz joined the Medical Corps of the United States army, being placed in charge of all contagious service at the Base Hospital at Camp Devens, near Boston, Massachusetts, with the rank of assistant medical chief, and was honorably discharged March 18, 1919. Since 1916 Dr. Schlutz has been carrying on major work in bio-chemistry under the direction of Professor Otto Folin of Har­vard University, preparatory to a degree in philosophy, and registered at Harvard in 1919 as a candidate for that degree. He is a member of the Minneapolis Club, the Interlachen Club and the University Club of Chicago and his professional connec­tions are with the American Medical Association, the American Pediatric Society, the Chicago Pediatric Society, the Central States Pediatric Society and the Rocke­feller Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, while he is also an honorary member of Sigma Xi, a scientific fraternity. His life has been an intensely active and useful one and he has made each moment count for the utmost. Through the strength of his mental endowments he has risen to a position of eminence in his profession and his contribution to the world's work is one of great importance and value.