Otto Spiegelberg

Otto Spiegelberg ( born January 9, 1830 in Peine, † August 9, 1881 in Breslau) was a German gynecologist and university teachers. His textbook of obstetrics was considered a standard work.

Life

Otto Spiegelberg attended the Gymnasium Josephinum Hildesheim. After graduation, he studied medicine at the Georg-August -Universität Göttingen, Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin and the Karl- Ferdinand University in Prague. In 1851 he received a doctorate in med. 1853 he completed his habilitation in Göttingen for obstetrics. After a UK tour in 1855, he sought the introduction of advanced methods in the delivery room, including the use of chloroform.

Spiegelberg was from 1861 Full Professor of Obstetrics at the Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg. In 1864 he moved to the Albertus University of Königsberg. In 1875, he finally answered the call of the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University in Breslau. For the academic year 1878/79 he was elected its rector. He increasingly turned to operative gynecology.

In 1870 he and others founded the journal Archives of Gynecology. With 51 years, he died of a kidney ailment.

He was married to a sister of the botanist Anton de Bary from Frankfurt am Main since 1862.