Albert Sigmund Gustav Döderlein (5 July 1860,

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– 10 December 1941,

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) was a German

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and

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. He was the father of gynecologist Gustav Döderlein.

Biography

He studied medicine at the

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, 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),

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(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

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. He was among the first to use

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s 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 Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich {{Germany-med-bio-stub