Christian Gerhard Leopold, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German gynecologist
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Place of Birth: Meerane, Saxony, Germany
About Christian Gerhard Leopold
- Christian Gerhard Leopold (24 February 1846 – 12 September 1911) was a German gynecologist born in Meerane, Saxony. In 1870 he earned his medical doctorate from the University of Leipzig, where he studied under Carl Siegmund Franz Credé (1819-1892), who would later become his father-in-law.
- From 1877 until 1883 he taught midwifery at the Frauenklinik in Leipzig, and afterwards succeeded Franz von Winckel (1837-1911) as director of the Dresden Royal Gynecological Infirmary. Leopold is remembered for the eponymous "Leopold maneuvers" (Leopold-Handgriffe), which are four classic maneuvers used to determine the position of the fetus within the uterus.
- Beginning in 1894 he was co-editor of the Archiv für Gynäkologie with Adolf Gusserow (1836-1906).
- Also, with Dr.
- Credé and Paul Zweifel (1848-1927), he published textbooks on midwifery.N.B.
- - Leopold Landau, who was also a German gynecologist born around this time, may be confused with Christian Gerhard Leopold.
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