Carl Conrad Theodor Litzmann (October 7, 1815 – February 24, 1890) was a German obstetrician and gynecologist born in Gadebusch

Gadebusch

Gadebusch is a town in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, in the district Nordwestmecklenburg, half-way between Lübeck and Schwerin.The town is known for two notable monuments: the Stadtkirche , built in 1220, considered the oldest brick church in Mecklenburg, and the Schloss , built in 1580-1583...

, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

He studied medicine in Halle

Halle, Saxony-Anhalt

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, Würzburg

Würzburg

Würzburg is a city in the region of Franconia which lies in the northern tip of Bavaria, Germany. Located at the Main River, it is the capital of the Regierungsbezirk Lower Franconia. The regional dialect is Franconian....

 and Berlin

Berlin

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. In 1845 became an associate professor at the University of Greifswald, where during the following year he was appointed professor of general pathology

General pathology

General pathology, also called investigative pathology, experimental pathology or theoretical pathology, is a broad and complex scientific field which seeks to understand the mechanisms of injury to cells and tissues, as well as the body's means of responding to and repairing injury...

 and therapy

Therapy

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. During this time period he published a study on the physiology

Physiology

Physiology is the science of the function of living systems. This includes how organisms, organ systems, organs, cells, and bio-molecules carry out the chemical or physical functions that exist in a living system. The highest honor awarded in physiology is the Nobel Prize in Physiology or...

 of pregnancy

Pregnancy

Pregnancy refers to the fertilization and development of one or more offspring, known as a fetus or embryo, in a woman's uterus. In a pregnancy, there can be multiple gestations, as in the case of twins or triplets...

 titled Physiologie der Schwangerschaft und des weiblichen Organismus überhaupt (1846). In 1849 he became a 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...

 and director of the Frauenklinik in Kiel

Kiel

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He is remembered for his research of pelvimetry

Pelvimetry

Pelvimetry is the assessment of the female pelvis in relation to the birth of a baby. Traditional obstetrical services relied heavily on pelvimetry in the conduct of delivery in order to decide if natural or operative vaginal delivery was possible or if and when to use a cesarean...

, and among his better known written works was an edition of Gustav Adolf Michaelis

Gustav Adolf Michaelis

Gustav Adolf Michaelis was a German obstetrician who was a native of Kiel. He studied medicine in Göttingen under surgeon Konrad Johann Martin Langenbeck and obstetrician Friedrich Benjamin Osiander , and later was director of the Obstetric Hospital and the School of Midwifery at Kiel...

' Das enge Becken nach eigenen Beobachtungen und Untersuchungen. His name is lent to "Litzmann's obliquity", which is another name for posterior asynclitism

Asynclitic birth

An asynclitic birth or asynclitism refers to the position of a baby in the uterus such that the head is tilted to the side, causing the fetal head to no longer be in line with the birth canal. Most asynclitism corrects spontaneously in the progress of normal labor...

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