Karl Reifferscheid
Karl Reifferscheid (born January 12, 1874 in Breslau , † March 8, 1926 in Göttingen ) was a German gynecologist and from 1918 to 1926 director of the clinic for gynecology and obstetrics at the Georg August University in Göttingen .
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Reifferscheid was born as the younger son of the philologist August Reifferscheid (1835–1887) in Breslau, where his father had been a university professor since 1868 and his older brother Heinrich Reifferscheid , who later became an academy professor in Düsseldorf, was born two years earlier .
As the successor to Philipp Jung and student of Heinrich Fritsch from Bonn , he further developed the therapeutic use of X-rays . During his time, the textbook on gynecology he wrote with Walter Stoeckel became a recognized standard work in medicine.
Heinrich Martius was his successor .
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- August Hirsch (Hrsg.): Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. 3rd, unchanged edition. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1962.
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- ↑ Treatises of the Society of Sciences in Göttingen. Philological-Historical Class, Vol. 19 (1926/27), p. 427.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reifferscheid, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reifferscheid, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German gynecologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1926 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |