Josef Albert Amann (1 July 1866, in
Munich
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– 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 teachers included
Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer,
Otto Bollinger and
Franz von Winckel. For several years he worked as an assistant at the university women's clinic in Munich, receiving his
habilitation
Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in Germany, France, Italy, Poland and some other European and non-English-speaking countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excelle ...
in 1892. In 1898 he succeeded his father as head of the second gynecological department at the Allgemeine Krankenhaus in Munich. In 1905 he became an associate professor at the university.
[Josef Albert Amann]
at Who Named It
He held a particular interest in the anatomy and histology of
female genitalia. In 1897 he published ''Kurzgefasstes Lehrbuch der mikroskopisch-gynäkologischen Diagnostik'', an influential textbook of microscopic gynecological diagnostics.
[ Also, he is credited with introducing a surgery for creation of an artificial vagina in cases of congenital absence ("Amann's operation").Stedman's Medical Eponyms]
by Thomas Lathrop Stedman
References
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1866 births
1919 deaths
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni
Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
German gynaecologists