Ludwig Julius Caspar Mende

Ludwig Julius Caspar Mende (* September 14, 1779 in Greifswald, † April 23, 1832 in Göttingen ) was a German gynecologist, obstetrician and coroner.

Life

Ludwig Mende visited the great city school in Greifswald. At the University of Greifswald in 1797 he began to study medicine, which he continued from 1799 to 1801 in Berlin, Würzburg, Bamberg and Göttingen. After receiving his doctorate in 1801 in Göttingen, he settled in Greifswald as a general practitioner and lecturer down. In 1807 he was an adjunct at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Assessor at the Royal Collegium in Swedish Pomerania. In 1814 he was an associate and in 1815 a full professor of medicine at the University of Greifswald.

As the successor of Johann Friedrich Osiander (1787-1855), he went in 1823 as a professor of forensic medicine and obstetrics at the Georg-August -Universität Göttingen. Until his death in 1832 he was Director of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University.

Mende he studied after removal scientifically and medically with the practice in England, " premature labor ". During his tenure in 1300 deliveries were made, where it was striking that forceps deliveries not even accounted for 5%.

The treatment of cervical cancer, which trained training of midwives and gynecology have been a focus in science and research.

Eduard Caspar Jacob von Siebold became his successor.