Anton Friedrich Hohl was a German professor of obstetrics

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 who was born in Lobenstein

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He studied law at the University of Leipzig

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, and following graduation opened a law practice in his home town of Lobenstein. In 1824 he was able procure sufficient funds to study medicine. In 1827 he obtained his medical doctorate at Halle an der Saale with a dissertation on microcephaly

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This thesis was based on a specimen from the teratological

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 collection of Johann Friedrich Meckel

Johann Friedrich Meckel

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 (1781-1833). In 1834 Hohl became a "full professor" of obstetrics

Obstetrics

Obstetrics is the medical specialty dealing with the care of all women's reproductive tracts and their children during pregnancy , childbirth and the postnatal period...

 at Halle.

Hohl published numerous works in the field of obstetrics, including an influential textbook titled Lehrbuch der Geburtshülfe mit Einschluss der geburtshülflichen Operationen und der gerichtlichen Geburtshülfe. (Textbook of Obstetrics with the Inclusion of Obstetric Operations and Forensic

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 Obstetrics). In 1852 he was the first physician to describe agenesis of the lower spine, and in 1834 was the first to provide a description for design of a fetal stethoscope.

Selected publications

• De Microcephalia. Halle 1830. (Dissertation)
• De Aneurysmatis, eorum medendi manuumque opera sanandi ratione. Orphanotropheum, Halle 1830. (Habilitationsschrift)
• Die Geburtshülfliche Exploration. Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, Halle 1833–1834, 2 Bd.
• Vorträge über die Geburt des Menschen. Waisenhaus, Halle 1845.
• Die Geburten missgestalteter, kranker und todter Kinder. Waisenhaus, Halle 1850.
• Zur Pathologie des Beckens. Engelmann, Leipzig 1852.
• Lehrbuch der Geburtshülfe mit Einschluss der geburtshülflichen Operationen und der gerichtlichen Geburtshülfe. Engelmann, Leipzig 1855