Ludwig Haberlandt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ludwig Haberlandt

Austrian scientist

Date of Birth: 01-Feb-1885

Place of Birth: Graz, Styria, Austria

Date of Death: 22-Jul-1932

Profession: university teacher, physiologist

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Ludwig Haberlandt (1 February 1885 – 22 July 1932) is known as a father of hormonal contraception.
In 1921 he carried out experiments on rabbits and he demonstrated a temporary hormonal contraception in a female by transplanting ovaries from a second, pregnant, animal. His father was the eminent botanist, Gottlieb Haberlandt, plant tissue culture theorist and visionary; his grandfather was the European 'soybean' pioneer and trailblazer Friedrich J.
Haberlandt.In 1930 he began clinical trials after successful production of a hormonal preparation, Infecundin®, by the G.
Richter Company in Budapest, Hungary.
He ended his 1931 book, Die hormonale Sterilisierung des weiblichen Organismus, with a visionary claim: 'Unquestionably, practical application of the temporary hormonal sterilization in women would markedly contribute to the ideal in human society already enunciated a generation earlier by Sigmund Freud (1898).
Theoretically, one of the greatest triumphs of mankind would be the elevation of procreation into a voluntary and deliberate act.' He was hounded for his views on reproductive biology up to his death from either suicide, or heart attack.