Eduard Arnold Martin
Eduard Arnold Martin (22 April 1809,
Initially a student of law, he later studied medicine at the
In 1837 he became an associate professor at the University of Jena, where during the following year he was named subdirector of the university maternity hospital. In 1846 he became a full professor as well as director of the maternity hospital. In 1858 he relocated to Berlin as successor to Dietrich Wilhelm Heinrich Busch as director of the maternity hospital at the Charité. At Berlin he also established a department of gynecology. Among his better known students and assistants were Robert Michaelis von Olshausen and Adolf Gusserow.[1][2]
In 1873 he founded the Gynäkologische Gesellschaft (Gynecological Society) in Berlin.[3] His "Hand-Atlas der Gynäkologie und Geburtshülfe" was later translated into English and published as: "Atlas of obstetrics and gynaecology" (1880).[4]
References
- ^ a b Julius Leopold Pagel: Martin, Eduard Arnold In: Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Ärzte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Berlin, Wien 1901, Sp. 1098–1099
- ^ a b Franz von Winckel: Martin, Eduard Arnold In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, S. 489 f.
- PMID 1595310.
- ^ HathiTrust Digital Library Translated from the 2nd edition of Hand-Atlas der Gynäkologie und Geburtshülfe (1878, edited by his son August Eduard Martin).
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