Justine Siegemundin
Justine Siegemund or Siegemundin (26 December 1636 – 10 November 1705) was a renowned midwife from Lower Silesia whose ''Court Midwife'' (1690) was the most read, but not the first, female-published German obstetrical manual. Early life She was born the daughter of Elias Diettrich, a Lutheran minister, in Rohnstock (now Roztoka), in former silesian Duchy of Jawor on 26 December 1636. Her father died in 1650, when she was aged fourteen. In 1655, she married Christian Siegemund, an accountant, but the marriage was childless. However, it lasted for forty-two years, and Christian Siegemund provided considerable support to his wife during her professional career, although they may have lived apart from 1673. Siegemund's childlessness should have technically disqualified her from her profession, as only childbearing midwives were supposed to be able to practice. Early career: 1656–1672 At twenty, Justine Siegemund suffered considerably at the hand of incompetent midwives who wron ...
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Roztoka, Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Roztoka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dobromierz, within Świdnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately north of Dobromierz, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Dobromierz, north-west of Świdnica, and west of the regional capital Wrocław. The German name of the village, Rohnstock, originates from Old High German "rono", Middle High German "rone" = tree trunk and “stoc" = stock of trees and came about because the trees were felled at this point and the (root) stocks were cleaned. An earlier city seal shows a wooden stick with two axes (rode). In 1305 the name of the place was first mentioned in the "Liber Foundationis..." as Rostock. The place is best known for the Roztoka castle, Rohnstock Castle of the same name, where Frederick the Great stayed in 1745 during the Battle of Hohenfriedberg. The castle was owned by the Counts of Hochberg til 1945. Until 1945, Rohnstock, which had around 1,600 inhabitants at the ...
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