Carl Conrad Theodor Litzmann

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Carl Conrad Theodor Litzmann (October 7, 1815 - 1890) was a German obstetrician and gynecologist who was a native of Schwerin. He studied medicine in Berlin, and in 1844 became a professor at Greifswald where he performed studies of obstetric physiology. In 1849 he succeeded Gustav Adolf Michaelis (1798-1848) as director of the Frauenklinik in Kiel, a position he maintained until 1885.

At Kiel, Litzmann did extensive studies involving pelvimetry, and published several treatises on obstetrics, including Die Geburt bei engem Becken nach eigenen Beobachtungen und Untersuchungen, which discussed childbirth and its association with a "narrow pelvis". This work he dedicated to the memory of Dr. Michaelis, his predecessor at the clinic in Kiel. Litzmann's name is lent to the eponymous "Litzmann's obliquity", which is another name for posterior asynclitism.

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