Carl Braun (1822-1891)

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Carl Braun (1822-1891) was Johann Klein's assistant from 1849 until 1853. He succeeded Klein as Professor of Obstetrics at the University of Vienna and became Rector of the University. Braun was consistently hostile to Semmelweis; he was not conscientious in using the prophylactic measures necessary to prevent childbed fever, and he did not accept Semmelweis's etiological characterization of the disease. He wrote Lehrbuch der Geburtshülfe (Vienna: Braumüller, 1857).

Semmelweis, Ignaz; K. Codell Carter (translator and extensive foreword) (1861). Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever. University of Wisconsin Press, September 15, 1983. ISBN 0299093646.  p92 footnote 15