Charlotte Heidenreich von Siebold

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Charlotte Heidenreich 1820. Engraving by Franz Hubert Müller.

Marian Theodore Charlotte Heidenreich von Siebold (born September 12, 1788 in Heiligenstadt ; † July 8, 1859 in Darmstadt ) is Germany's first female doctor .

Life

Origin and education

Charlotte was the first child of government councilor Georg Heiland and his wife Josepha . When Georg Heiland died, Josepha Heiland married Damian von Siebold, Darmstadt's city doctor and medical officer from Göttingen and son of Carl Caspar von Siebold . Damian von Siebold adopted Charlotte and her sister Therese, both of whom received his last name. In order to supplement the family income, Josepha von Siebold worked in her husband's practice. Later she even studied medicine and in 1815 received an honorary doctorate in childbirth .

Charlotte took an interest in medicine and read her father's books on anatomy and physiology . Later she received theoretical instruction from her father and practical instruction from her mother, but the focus was on obstetrics . In 1811 Charlotte went to Göttingen and had the opportunity there to hear private lectures by Osiander and Langenbeck . In 1814 Charlotte passed the examination as an obstetrician at the Grand Ducal Medicinal College in Darmstadt and was allowed to practice obstetrics from then on. On March 26, 1817 , she received her doctorate in Giessen with her thesis on pregnancy outside the uterus and on ectopic pregnancy, in particular as a "doctor of obstetrics".

Professional activity

Charlotte von Siebold went back to Darmstadt and worked there in her parents' maternity hospital. She gave classes for midwives and cared for the poor with great devotion, and she also raised money for the Darmstadt citizens' hospital. In 1829 she married the 14 years younger military doctor August Heidenreich, who later became senior staff doctor. In 1845 she founded an obstetrics facility for poor citizens in Darmstadt.

Charlotte Heidenreich enjoyed an excellent reputation as a midwife and was called several times to give births to various royal courts. So she helped both Victoire , Duchess of Kent, the mother of the future Queen Victoria , and Duchess Luise Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha , the mother of Queen Victoria's future husband, Prince Consort Albert, with the births of their respective children.

Honors

In Darmstadt, Heidenreichstrasse is named after her. The Heidenreich-von Siebold Foundation founded after her death in Darmstadt to support poor women who had recently given birth was later merged into the Darmstadt Foundation for charity purposes . The medical faculty of the University of Göttingen has launched the Heidenreich von Siebold program to promote women scientists since 2006 .

The "Charlotte Heidenreich von Siebold Prize" named after her is awarded every two years by the Entega Foundation.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrike Enke: Midwife of the English Queen. In: Hessisches Ärzteblatt. 8, 2009, ISSN  0171-9661 , pp. 525-526, full text (PDF; 185 kB) .
  2. ↑ Jost Benedum and Christian Giese (eds.): 375 years of medicine in Gießen. A picture and text documentation from 1607–1982 . Giessen 1983, p. 115ff.
  3. ↑ University Medicine Göttingen
  4. ↑ Impulse prizes awarded in Darmstadt
personal data
SURNAME Heidenreich von Siebold, Charlotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Savior, Charlotte; Heidenreich, Charlotte; Siebold, Charlotte von; Heidenreich von Siebold, Marian Theodore Charlotte (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first female doctor in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Heiligenstadt
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1859
Place of death Darmstadt