Friedrich Wilhelm Scanzoni von Lichtenfels

Friedrich Wilhelm Scanzoni von Lichtenfels

Friedrich Wilhelm Scanzoni von Lichtenfels (21 December 1821 12 June 1891) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician born in Prague, in the Austrian Empire.

He studied medicine in Prague, and spent most of his professional career as chair of obstetrics (1850–1888) at the University of Würzburg, where he succeeded Franz Kiwisch von Rotterau.[1]

Scanzoni was a leading authority of obstetrics in 19th-century Europe. He is best remembered today for the birthing procedure known as the "Scanzoni maneuver". In 1849 he was a major factor in the appointment of Rudolf Virchow to the chair of pathological anatomy at the University of Würzburg.[2] He was an ardent critic of Ignaz Semmelweis.

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Selected writings

References

  1. Erik E. Hauzman, Semmelweis and his German contemporaries www.ishm2006.hu/abstracts/files/ishmpaper_093.doc (accessed on 5 June 2008)
  2. Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow at Who Named It
  3. Mondofacto Dictionary – Scanzoni's second os
  4. Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Band 17. Leipzig 1909, S. 657 – biography in German