Johann Baptist Chiari

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Johann Baptist Chiari (born June 15, 1817 in Salzburg , † December 11, 1854 in Vienna ) was an Austrian obstetrician and gynecologist .

Life

Chiari comes from the original Italian family Chiari , studied in Vienna and was in 1841 with a thesis De legibus mechanicis motus muscularis doctorate . In 1842 he became an assistant at the clinic for obstetrics with Johann Klein . In 1849 his habilitation took place . In 1853 he became a professor of obstetrics in Prague. In 1854 he became a professor at the Joseph Academy in Vienna.

Johann Baptist Chiari died of cholera in 1854 . He was married to Anna Klein (1822–1912), daughter of the gynecologist Johann Klein. He was a father u. a. the industrialist Karl von Chiari (1849–1912), the laryngologist Ottokar von Chiari (1853–1918) and the pathologist Hans Chiari (1851–1916).

Act

The Chiari-Frommel syndrome , the galactorrhea-amenorrhea syndrome described by Chiari for the first time after pregnancy with no menstruation afterwards, is named after him and Richard Frommel .

With Carl Braun von Fernwald and Joseph Späth he published the first medical textbook ( Clinic for Obstetrics and Gynecology , Erlangen, Enke, 1855 ) in which Ignaz Semmelweis's demands were taken to clean hands before obstetric interventions in order to prevent child bed fever to prevent.

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personal data
SURNAME Chiari, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1854
Place of death Vienna