Otto Spiegelberg
Otto Spiegelberg (born January 9, 1830 in Peine , † August 9, 1881 in Breslau ) was a German gynecologist and university professor . His obstetrics textbook was considered a standard work .
Life
Otto Spiegelberg attended the Josephinum Hildesheim grammar school . After graduating from high school, he studied medicine at the Georg August University in Göttingen , the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague . In 1851 he received his doctorate as Dr. med. In 1853 he qualified as a professor in Göttingen for obstetrics . After a trip to Great Britain in 1855, he tried to introduce advanced methods in the delivery room , including the use of chloroform .
From 1861 Spiegelberg was full professor for obstetrics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . In 1864 he moved to the Albertus University in Königsberg . In 1875 he finally followed the call of the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau . For the academic year 1878/79 he was elected its rector . Increasingly, he turned to surgical gynecology.
In 1870 he and others founded the journal Archiv für Gynäkologie . At the age of 51 he succumbed to kidney disease.
He was married since 1862 to a sister of the botanist Anton de Bary from Frankfurt am Main.
Individual evidence
literature
- Julius Pagel : Spiegelberg, Otto , in: Biographical Lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin and Vienna 1901, Col. 1629–1631.
- Franz von Winckel : Spiegelberg, Otto . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 159-161.
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Spiegelberg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography and detailed bibliography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spiegelberg, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German gynecologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1830 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Torment |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1881 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |