Johann Klein

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Johann Klein (1788-1856) was Professor of Obstetrics at the University of Salzburg and at the University of Vienna. As Semmelweis's chief in the maternity clinic, he seems to have felt threatened by the younger members of the faculty, and he opposed both Semmelweis and his theories. Johann Baptist Chiari was his son-in-law.

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.  p61 footnote 1