Eduard Arnold Martin (22 April 1809,

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– 5 December 1875,

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) was a German

obstetrician Obstetrics is the field of study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. As a medical specialty, obstetrics is combined with gynecology under the discipline known as obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN), which is a surgi ...

and

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. He was the father of medic Carl Eduard Martin (1838-1907),

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...

Ernst Eduard Martin (1841-1910) and obstetrician August Eduard Martin (1847-1933). Initially a student of law, he later studied medicine at the

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(1830–31), where his instructors included

Maximilian Joseph von Chelius Maximilian Joseph von Chelius (16 January 1794 – 17 August 1876) was a German surgeon and ophthalmologist born in Mannheim. Chelius received his medical doctorate in 1812 at the University of Heidelberg, and afterwards worked as both a civilia ...

and

Franz Naegele Franz Karl Naegele (7 December 1778 – 21 January 1851) was a German obstetrician born in Düsseldorf. His son, Hermann Franz Naegele (1801–1851), was also a noted obstetrician. He earned his medical degree from the University of Bamberg, ...

. He then continued his education at the

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, and received his doctorate in 1833 at the

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with the thesis "''De lithogenesi praesertim urinaria''". Following an extended study trip to

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, England and France, he obtained his

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at Jena in 1835.

Julius Leopold Pagel Julius Leopold Pagel (29 May 1851, Pollnow – 30 January 1912, Berlin) was a German physician and historian of medicine. Biography Pagel was educated at the gymnasium at Stolp and at the University of Berlin (M.D. 1875). In 1876 he establ ...

Martin, Eduard Arnold
In: Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Ärzte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Berlin, Wien 1901, Sp. 1098–1099 Franz von Winckel
Martin, Eduard Arnold
In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, S. 489 f. 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

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. At Berlin he also established a department of gynecology. Among his better known students and assistants were

Robert Michaelis von Olshausen Robert Michaelis von Olshausen (3 July 1835 – 1 February 1915) was a German obstetrician and gynecologist. He was born in Kiel and died in Berlin. He was the son of Justus Olshausen (1800–82), a professor of Oriental languages at the Univers ...

and

Adolf Gusserow Adolf Ludwig Sigismund Gusserow (Berlin, 8 July 1836 – Berlin, 8 February 1906) was a German gynecologist who was a native of Berlin. He married Clara Oppenheim (1861–1944), a descendant of Berlin banker Joseph Mendelssohn. Gusserow began his ...

. In 1873 he founded the ''Gynäkologische Gesellschaft'' (Gynecological Society) in Berlin. His "''Hand-Atlas der Gynäkologie und Geburtshülfe''" was later translated into English and published as: "Atlas of obstetrics and gynaecology" (1880).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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