Franz Karl Ludwig Wilhelm von Winckel (5 June 1837 – 31 December 1911) was a German

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and

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 surg ...

who was a native of

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. In 1860 he received his medical doctorate from

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, later becoming a professor of gynecology in

Rostock Rostock (), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (german: link=no, Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock), is the largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the state, ...

(1864). In 1872 he became director of the ''Königlichen Landesentbindungsschule'' in

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...

, and from 1883 onward, was director of the ''Frauenklinik'' at the

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. Among his students and assistants at Munich was gynecologist

Josef Albert Amann Josef Albert Amann (1 July 1866, in Munich – 17 October 1919, in Konstanz) was a German gynecologist. His father, Josef Albert Amann (1832–1906), was also a gynecologist. He studied medicine at the University of Munich, where his teacher ...

(1866–1919). His name is lent to "Winckel's disease", a disease originally described in the epidemic form in 1879. It has been referred to as "epidemic

hemoglobinuria Hemoglobinuria is a condition in which the oxygen transport protein hemoglobin is found in abnormally high concentrations in the urine. The condition is caused by excessive intravascular hemolysis, in which large numbers of red blood cells (RBCs) ...

of the newborn". His name is also associated with a birthing maneuver known as the "Wigand-Martin-Winckel-Handgriff". The procedure is named in conjunction with

Justus Heinrich Wigand Justus Heinrich Wigand (13 September 1769 – 10 February 1817) was a Baltic German obstetrician born in Reval (Tallinn). Wigand studied medicine at the Universities of Jena and Erlangen, earning his doctorate at the latter. From 1793 to 1814 he w ...

(1769–1817) and August Eduard Martin (1847–1933). He was the first president of the ''Deutschen Gesellschaft für Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe'' (German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics).Zur Geschichte der Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe
edited by Lutwin Beck

Selected writings

* ''Die Pathologie und Therapie des Wochenbetts''; later translated into English and published as "The pathology and treatment of childbed: a treatise for physicians and students" (1866). * ''Lehrbuch der Frauenkrankheiten''; later translated into English and published as "Diseases of women. A handbook for physicians and students" (1886). * ''Die Krankheiten der weiblichen Harnröhre und Blase'' (Diseases of the female

urethra The urethra (from Greek οὐρήθρα – ''ourḗthrā'') is a tube that connects the urinary bladder to the urinary meatus for the removal of urine from the body of both females and males. In human females and other primates, the urethra c ...

and

bladder The urinary bladder, or simply bladder, is a hollow organ in humans and other vertebrates that stores urine from the kidneys before disposal by urination. In humans the bladder is a distensible organ that sits on the pelvic floor. Urine enters ...

), 1877 * ''Die Pathologie der weiblichen Sexual-Organe'' (Pathology of the female sex organs) Hirzel, Leipzig 1881. * ''Handbuch der Geburtshülfe'' (Handbook of obstetrics) three volumes, Bergmann,

Wiesbaden Wiesbaden () is a city in central western Germany and the capital of the state of Hesse. , it had 290,955 inhabitants, plus approximately 21,000 United States citizens (mostly associated with the United States Army). The Wiesbaden urban area ...

1903–1907.

References

Arztliche Praxis
(translated article on the Wigand-Martin-Winckel-Handgriff) 1837 births 1911 deaths German obstetricians German gynaecologists People from the Province of Westphalia Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Academic staff of the University of Rostock {{Germany-med-bio-stub