Charlotte von Siebold
Marian Theodore Charlotte Heidenreich von Siebold ( born September 12, 1788 in Heiligenstadt, † July 8, 1859 in Darmstadt) is considered the first woman doctor in Germany.
Life
Background and education
Charlotte was the first child of the Governing Council Georg Savior and his wife Josepha. When George Savior died, married Josepha Saviour Damian von Siebold, the city and the medical officer of Darmstadt from Göttingen and son of Carl Caspar von Siebold. Damian von Siebold adopted Charlotte and her sister Therese, both received his last name. To supplement the family income, Josepha von Siebold worked in the practice of her husband. Later, she even studied medicine and received in 1815 an honorary doctorate from the birth of art.
Charlotte was interested in medicine, and read in the books of the father of anatomy and physiology. She later received by the father of theoretical and practical instruction from the mother, but the emphasis in obstetrics. 1811 Charlotte went to Göttingen, where he had the opportunity to hear lectures privatissime of Osiander and Langenbeck. 1814 put Charlotte in front of the Grand Ducal Medicinal Collegium in Darmstadt testing as midwife from and was allowed to exercise from then on obstetrics. In 1817 she received her doctorate in Giessen with the work Concerning the pregnancy outside the uterus and ectopic pregnancy in particular for the " doctor of obstetrics ".
Professional work
Charlotte von Siebold returned to Darmstadt, where he worked in the maternity ward of their parents. She gave lessons for midwives and cared dearly for arms, they also collected money for the Darmstadt Civil Hospital. 1829 she married the 14 years younger military doctor August Heidenreich, who Oberstabsarzt later. In 1845 she founded in Darmstadt, a device for obstetrics for poor citizens.
Charlotte Heidenreich enjoyed an excellent reputation as a midwife and was called several times to births to various royal courts. So she helped both Victoire, Duchess of Kent, the mother of the future Queen Victoria, as well as Duchess Luise of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the mother of the future husband of Queen Victoria, the Prince Consort at the births of their children.
Honors
In Darmstadt, Heidenreich street is named after her. Founded in Darmstadt after her death Heidenreich of Sieboldsche foundation to help poor women in childbed later went on in the Darmstadt Foundation for charitable purposes. The medical faculty of the University of Göttingen since 2006 puts the Heidenreich von Siebold on program for the promotion of women scientists.