Hugo Karl Anton Pernice (9 November 1829 – 31 December 1901) was a German

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and obstetrician born in Halle an der Saale. He was the son of legal scholar Ludwig Wilhelm Anton Pernice (1799-1861), and the father of

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(1864-1945) and Agnes Ballowitz, nee Pernice, wife of Emil Ballowitz. Pernice studied at the Universities of

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and

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. In 1852 he earned his medical doctorate at Halle, where afterwards he remained as an assistant to Anton Friedrich Hohl (1789-1862). In 1858 he became a professor of

gynecology Gynaecology or gynecology (see spelling differences) is the area of medicine that involves the treatment of women's diseases, especially those of the reproductive organs. It is often paired with the field of obstetrics, forming the combined are ...

and obstetrics at the University of Greifswald, as well as director of the OB/GYN clinic. He was an instructor and medical practitioner at Greifswald for over 40 years, retiring in 1899. In 1863 he became the first chairman of the ''Medizinischen Vereins Greifswald'' (Medical Association of Greifswald).

Selected publications

* ''Operationum in arte obstetricia examinatio critica et historica'' (1855) * ''Die Geburten mit Vorfall der Extremitäten neben dem Kopfe'' (1858) * ''Ueber den Scheintod Neugeborener und dessen Behandlung mit elektrischen Reizen'' (1863)

References

Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Greifswald
(biography translated from German)

Literature

* Prussian physicians German gynaecologists German obstetricians Academic staff of the University of Greifswald 1829 births 1901 deaths {{Germany-med-bio-stub