Bernhard Breslau

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Bernhard Breslau (born May 9, 1829 in Munich , † December 31, 1866 in Zurich ) was a German gynecologist and university professor .

Life

Breslau was the son of the Munich professor of medicine and personal physician Heinrich von Breslau . He studied medicine at the University of Munich . There he was in 1852 with the dissertation De totius uteri exstirpatione to Dr. med. PhD . He then went to Friedrich Wilhelm Scanzoni von Lichtenfels at the University of Würzburg , to Karl Wilhelm Mayer to Berlin and to James Young Simpson at the University of Edinburgh in order to develop his knowledge and continue his studies. In 1856 he returned to the Munich University andcompleted his habilitation with the thesis Diagnostics of Tumors of the Uterus Outside Pregnancy and the Puerperium from a Clinical Viewpoint . He then taught there as a private lecturer .

Wroclaw took in 1858 a reputation as an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Zurich on. He also became the head of the clinic at the University Hospital Zurich . In 1863 he received a full professorship. He tried with writings and negotiations to get the obstetrics clinic built, but was unsuccessful. He died in 1866 of an infection with corpse poison .

Wroclaw's research dealt, among other things, with pelvic anomalies, the survival time of fetuses from a dead mother and the origin of gender.

The painter Louise-Cathérine Breslau was his daughter.

Works (selection)

  • De totius uteri extirpatione. Munich 1852.
  • Diagnosis of tumors of the uterus outside pregnancy and the puerperium from the clinical point of view. Kaiser, Munich 1856.
  • The building in Zurich. Zurich 1863.

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SURNAME Breslau, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1866
Place of death Zurich