Justus Heinrich Wigand

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Justus Heinrich Wigand (September 13, 1769 - February 10, 1817) was a Baltic German obstetrician who was a native of Reval (Tallinn).

Wigand studied medicine at the Universities of Jena and Erlangen, earning his doctorate at the latter. From 1793 to 1814 he was a physician in Hamburg, and afterwards lived in Heidelberg, Schwetzingen and Mannheim.

He is remembered for introducing an assisted breech delivery procedure known as the "Wigand maneuver".^[1] His best known written work, Die Geburt des Menschen was published posthumously in 1820.

Selected publications

Von den Ursachen und der Behandlung der Nachgeburtszögerungen, 1803
Drey den medicinischen Facultäten zu Paris und Berlin zur Prüfung übergebene geburtshülfliche Abhandlungen, 1812
Die Geburt des Menschen in physiologisch- diätetischer und pathologisch- therapeutischer Beziehung, grösstentheils nach eigenen Beobachtungen und Versuchen dargestellt, 1820

References

translated biography @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

↑ Mondofacto Dictionary, definition of eponym

Ottow (Benno).- Der Embryologe Sebastian Graf von Tredern und der Geburtshelfer Justus Heinrich Wigand in ihren Beziehungen zu Reval, Eesti Arst, Jg 1923, Nr 9, S. 253-256

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Name	Wigand, Justus Heinrich
Alternative names
Short description	German obstetrician
Date of birth	September 13, 1769
Place of birth
Date of death	February 10, 1817
Place of death

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