Franz von Winckel
Franz Karl Ludwig Wilhelm von Winckel (5 June 1837 – 31 December 1911) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician who was a native of Berleburg.
In 1860 he received his medical doctorate from Berlin, later becoming a professor of gynecology in Rostock (1864). In 1872 he became director of the Königlichen Landesentbindungsschule in Dresden, and from 1883 until 1907 was director of the Frauenklinik at the University of Munich.
His name is lent to "Winckel's disease", a disease originally described in the epidemic form in 1879. It has been referred to as "epidemic hemoglobinuria of the newborn".[1] His name is also associated with a birthing maneuver known as the "Wigand-Martin-Winckel-Handgriff". The procedure is named in conjunction with Justus Heinrich Wigand (1769–1817) and August Eduard Martin (1847–1933).
He was the first president of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe (German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics).
Selected writings
- Die Krankheiten der weiblichen Harnröhre und Blase (Diseases of the female urethra and bladder), 1877
- Die Pathologie der weiblichen Sexual-Organe (Pathology of the female sex organs) Hirzel, Leipzig 1881.
- Handbuch der Geburtshülfe (Handbook of obstetrics) three volumes, Bergmann, Wiesbaden 1903–1907.
References
- This article incorporates information based on a translation of an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.
- Arztliche Praxis (translated article on the Wigand-Martin-Winckel-Handgriff)
- ↑ Neonatology.org Perspectives of Neonatology
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