Albert Sigmund Gustav Döderlein (5 July 1860,

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– 10 December 1941,

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) was a German obstetrician and

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. He was the father of gynecologist Gustav Döderlein.

Biography

He studied medicine at the University of Erlangen, and from 1893 to 1897 was an associate professor of gynecology and obstetrics at the

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. Afterwards, he was a full professor at the Universities of

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(1897), Tübingen (from 1897 to 1907) and

(from 1907 to 1934).Prof. Dr. med. Albert Siegmund Gustav Döderlein
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Contributions

He is considered one the founders of gynecological bacteriology. He was among the first to use radiotherapeutics in

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and is credited with introducing

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in obstetrics and gynecology. His name is associated with the Döderlein vaginal bacillus, a large, gram-positive bacterium that he first described in 1892.A Study of Döderlein's Vaginal Bacillus
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Published works

* ''Leitfaden für den geburtshilflichen Operationskurs'', Leipzig 1893. * ''Über Vergangenheit und Gegenwart der Geburtshülfe'', Leipzig 1897. * ''Operative Gynäkologie'', Leipzig 1905; (with Bernhard Krönig). * ''Handbuch der Geburtshilfe'', 4 volumes,

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1915–1921.

References

External links

* 1860 births 1941 deaths 19th-century German physicians German obstetricians German gynaecologists Physicians from Augsburg Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich faculty {{Germany-med-bio-stub