Eduard Caspar Jacob von Siebold

Eduard Caspar ( Kaspar ) Jakob von Siebold ( * 19 March 1801 in Würzburg, † October 27, 1861 in Göttingen ) was a German professor of gynecology. He worked at the universities of Berlin, Marburg and Göttingen.

Life

Siebold was from 1833 to 1861 director of the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Georg-August -Universität Göttingen.

As followers of Caspar Julius Mende, he traveled to Vienna in 1847 to study the doctrine of Boer because of the confrontation with the Viennese School. On this occasion he brought against Ignaz Semmelweis expressed that he did not agree with some of his scientific views.

Open to James Young Simpson, he led the ether anesthesia, and first under this condition the caesarean. This caused the device developed for the Women's Clinic. The obstetricians were to " gynecologists ".

His successor was Jacob Heinrich Hermann Schwartz, a student of Gustav Adolf Michaelis in Kiel and Carl Conrad Theodor Litzmann was.

Siebold was a member of the ( short-lived ) Corps Lusatia Berlin ( 1820) and the Corps Lusatia Leipzig ( 1857).

Works

• Instructions for geburtshülflichen technical procedures on phantoms, as a preparation for the future exercise of midwifery, with Theodor Christian Friedrich Enslin, Berlin, 1828