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Max Singer ( born March 14, 1853 in Bayreuth, † January 12, 1903 in Bubentsch / Prague ) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician.

Life and work

Max Singer studied medicine from 1871 to 1876 at the universities of Würzburg and Leipzig. In 1876 he received his doctorate in Leipzig with a thesis on " The mechanics of the broncho- and Pneumorrhagieen at tubercolosis pulmonum " Dr. med. Until 1878 Singer worked as an assistant at the Pathological Institute, and at the medical clinic at Ernst L. Wagner ( 1829-1888 ). After singer was until 1881 an assistant at the University Hospital Leipzig under Carl Siegmund Franz Crede ( 1819-1892 ). Here he completed his habilitation in 1881 with the publication " The Caesarean section in uterine fibroids along with comparative methodology of cesarean section and Porro operation " of obstetrics and gynecology. In the same year he was appointed as Lecturer in 1890 and an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig.

1882 led a singer a two-layer suturing of the uterus during Caesarean section, after it had been carried out on 25 September 1881 by Ferdinand Adolf Kehrer in Meckenheim the first conservative classical caesarean section.

Singer founded in 1883 and opened a gynecological clinic in 1890 a modern woman sanatorium. In 1894 he was co-founder of the magazine Monthly Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and a founding member of the German Society of Gynecology in 1895.

1899 Max Singer was appointed as a full professor and director of obstetric - gynecological clinic at the Charles University in Prague. He directed the hospital until his death in 1903 at the age of 49 years.

Writings (selection )

  • Max Singer: The mechanics of the broncho- and Pneumorrhagieen in Tuberculosis pulmonalis. Dissertation, University of Leipzig, 1876
  • Max Singer: The caesarean section in uterine fibroids along with comparative methodology of cesarean section and Porro operation. Reviews, studies and proposals for improvement of caesarean section. Habilitation thesis, University of Leipzig, 1881
  • Max Singer: Overlap Trachelorraphie. Leipzig 1890.
  • Max Singer: Asepsis in gynecology and obstetrics. Leipzig 1893.
  • Max Singer: The clinical conditions of the ovarian embryos. Leipzig 1899.
  • Max Singer: Encyclopedia of obstetrics and gynecology. 2 volumes, Leipzig 1900

Awards

  • Knight First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav
  • Royal Saxon Medical Officer (1897 )
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