Karl von Hecker

Karl von Hecker ( born May 8, 1827 in Berlin, † December 14, 1882 in Munich) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician.

Life and work

Karl Hecker was born the only son of the medical historian Justus Hecker in Berlin. He studied medicine at the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg, Paris and Vienna. In 1848 he received his doctorate in Berlin with a thesis " De Chlorosi ". 1851 Hecker began his career as an assistant at the obstetric clinic of Dietrich Wilhelm Heinrich Busch at the Charité. Here he completed his habilitation in 1853 with the publication " De retro versione gravid uterus ". After the death of Karl Christoph Hueter (1803-1857) was appointed by Hecker in 1858 as his successor, and Full Professor of Obstetrics at the University of Marburg. Just a year later he was appointed as a gynecologist at the University of Munich. Here he was also appointed director of the urban Gebäranstalt and the district school for midwives. From 1874 to 1875 he was rector of the university. In 1877 he worked with Carl Siegmund Franz Crede and Alfred Hegar a statute for the establishment of an independent gynecological society, but in 1885, took place three years after his death, when German Society of Gynecology. Karl von Hecker died in 1882 at the age of 54 years at a stroke.

He was married to a daughter of the lawyer Johann Caspar Bluntschli and had two daughters and two sons.

Writings (selection )

• De Chlorosi dissertation, Berlin 1848
• De retro versione gravid uterus. Habilitation thesis, Berlin 1853
• Contributions to the teaching of pregnancy outside the uterine cavity. 1858
• As to the skull shape in face presentations. 1869
• About the health of new mothers in the county and local Gebäranstalt Munich. 1877
• Observations and examinations of the Gebäranstalt to Munich, comprising the period from 1859 to 1879. 1887