Bernhard Sigmund Schultze
- View a machine-translated version of the German article.
- Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
- Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 9,155 articles in the main category, and specifying
|topic=
will aid in categorization. - Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
- You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is
Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Bernhard Sigmund Schultze]]; see its history for attribution.
- You may also add the template
{{Translated|de|Bernhard Sigmund Schultze}}
to the talk page. - For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.
Bernhard Sigmund Schultze | |
---|---|
Born | (1827-12-29)29 December 1827 |
Died | 17 April 1919(1919-04-17) (aged 91) |
Nationality | German |
Alma mater | University of Greifswald (doctorate) |
Occupation(s) | Obstetrician, gynecologist |
Employer(s) | University of Greifswald University Women's Hospital, Berlin University of Jena |
Children | Leonhard Schultze-Jena (son) |
Relatives | Max Schultze (brother) |
Bernhard Sigmund Schultze; sometimes spelled Bernhard Sigismund Schultze (29 December 1827 in Freiburg im Breisgau – 17 April 1919) was a German obstetrician and gynecologist. He was a younger brother to anatomist Max Schultze (1825–1874).
In 1851 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Greifswald, where in 1853 he became a lecturer on anatomy and physiology. During the following year, he became an assistant to Dietrich Wilhelm Heinrich Busch (1788–1858) at the University Women's Hospital in Berlin, and in 1858 relocated to the University of Jena as chair of the gynecological clinic. In 1864/65 he served as rector of the university.
Family
- Leonhard Schultze-Jena (son), an explorer, zoologist, and anthropologist
Medical eponyms
His name is associated with an obstetrical term known as "Schultze's method", which is a resuscitation technique used on an apparent stillborn child. Other eponyms associated with Schultze include:
- Schultze-Chvostek sign: A sign of tetany seen in hypocalcemia, commonly referred to as Chvostek's sign.
- Schultze's fold: A crescent-shaped amniotic fold.
- Schultze's placenta: A placenta expelled with the central portion in advance of the periphery.
Selected writings
- Lehrbuch der Hebammenkunst (Textbook of midwifery), 1860.
- Das Nabelbläschen, ein constantes Gebilde in der Nachgeburt des ausgetragenen Kindes (The umbilical vesicle, a constant entity in the post-birth of the discharged child).
- Der Scheintod Neugeborner (The apparent death of the newborn), 1871.
- Ueber die Lageveränderungen der Gebärmutter (Overall situational changes in the uterus), 1873.
- Unser Hebammenwesen und das Kindbettfieber (Midwifery care and puerperal fever), 1884.
References
- "This article is based on a translation of text from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia, its sources including Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Ärzte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Verlag Urban und Schwarzenberg, Berlin/Wien 1901, 1551–1553.
- A Practical Medical Dictionary by Thomas Lathrop Stedman (definition of eponyms).