Hugo Karl Anton Pernice (9 November 1829 – 31 December 1901) was a German

gynecologist Gynaecology or gynecology (see American and British English spelling differences) is the area of medicine concerned with conditions affecting the female reproductive system. It is often paired with the field of obstetrics, which focuses on pre ...

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 surgi ...

born in

Halle an der Saale Halle (Saale), or simply Halle (), is the second largest city of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is the sixth-most populous city in the area of former East Germany after (East) Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz and Magdeburg as well as t ...

. He was the son of

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Ludwig Wilhelm Anton Pernice (1799-1861), and the father of classical archaeologist Erich Pernice (1864-1945) and Agnes Ballowitz, nee Pernice, wife of Emil Ballowitz. Pernice studied at the Universities of

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, Halle,

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and

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. In 1852 he earned his medical doctorate at Halle, where afterwards he remained as an assistant to Anton Friedrich Hohl (1789-1862). In 1858 he became a professor of

gynecology Gynaecology or gynecology (see American and British English spelling differences) is the area of medicine concerned with conditions affecting the Female reproductive system, female reproductive system. It is often paired with the field of obste ...

and obstetrics at the

University of Greifswald The University of Greifswald (; ), formerly known as Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, is a public research university located in Greifswald, Germany, in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Founded in 1456, it is one of th ...

, as well as director of the OB/GYN clinic. He was an instructor and medical practitioner at

Greifswald Greifswald (), officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (, Low German: ''Griepswoold'') is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg. In 2021 it surpa ...

for over 40 years, retiring in 1899. In 1863 he became the first chairman of the ''Medizinischen Vereins Greifswald'' (Medical Association of Greifswald).

Selected publications

* ''Operationum in arte obstetricia examinatio critica et historica'' (1855) * ''Die Geburten mit Vorfall der Extremitäten neben dem Kopfe'' (1858) * ''Ueber den Scheintod Neugeborener und dessen Behandlung mit elektrischen Reizen'' (1863)

References

Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Greifswald
(biography translated from German)

Literature

* Prussian physicians 19th-century German physicians German gynaecologists German obstetricians Academic staff of the University of Greifswald 1829 births 1901 deaths {{Germany-med-bio-stub