Franz Kiwisch von Rotterau (April 30, 1814, Klatovy – October 24, 1852, Prague) was Professor of Obstetrics at the University of Würzburg

University of Würzburg

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 and later at the University of Prague

Charles University in Prague

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. He was one of Semmelweis

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's principal opponents. In Würzburg he was succeeded by Friedrich Wilhelm Scanzoni von Lichtenfels

Friedrich Wilhelm Scanzoni von Lichtenfels

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.

A native of Klattau in Bohemia

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, he earned his medical doctorate from Prague

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 in 1837. Following the death of Josef Servas d’Outrepont

Josef Servas d’Outrepont

Josef Servas d’Outrepont; named also given as Joseph Servatius von d'Outrepont was a German obstetrician born in Malmedy....

 (1775-1845) in 1845, he was appointed professor of OB/GYN at the University of Würzburg

Würzburg

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. In 1850 he succeeded Antonín Jan Jungmann

Antonín Jan Jungmann

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 (1775-1854) as professor of OB/GYN at the University of Prague. Not long afterwards he succumbed to the effects of tuberculosis

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, which resulted in his death at the age of 38.

His 1852 book Klinische Vorträge (Clinical Lectures) was an influential scientific work in the field of gynaecology

Gynaecology

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. Kiwisch was considered an excellent teacher by his students.

Selected written works

• Conspectus morborum in clinico medico Pragensi primo semestri anni 1839 tractatorum; Doctoral dissertation (1837)
• Beiträge zur Geburtskunde; 2 booklets; (1846 and 1848)
• Klinische Vorträge über specielle Pathologie und Therapie der Krankheiten des weiblichen Geschlechtes (1852)

External links

• Franz Kiwisch von Rotterau @ Who Named It
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