Johann Eugen Rosshirt was a German obstetrician and gynecologist who was a native of Oberscheinfeld

Oberscheinfeld

Oberscheinfeld is a municipality in the district of Neustadt -Bad Windsheim in Bavaria in Germany....

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He studied medicine at the University of Würzburg

University of Würzburg

The University of Würzburg is a university in Würzburg, Germany, founded in 1402. The university is a member of the distinguished Coimbra Group.-Name:...

, where he earned his doctorate in 1818. Afterwards, he was an instructor of midwifery

Midwifery

Midwifery is a health care profession in which providers offer care to childbearing women during pregnancy, labour and birth, and during the postpartum period. They also help care for the newborn and assist the mother with breastfeeding....

 and prosector

Prosector

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-surgery

Surgery

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 at Bamberg

Bamberg

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, and in 1833 succeeded Michael Jäger (1795–1838) as director of the obstetrics hospital at the University of Erlangen. He would remain at Erlangen

Erlangen

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 until his retirement in 1868.

Rosshirt is remembered for his efforts in trying to establish women's healthcare as a separate and specialized area of study at Erlangen. However, it wasn't until 1870, during his successor Karl Schroeder

Karl Ludwig Ernst Schroeder

Karl Ludwig Ernst Friedrich Schroeder was a German gynecologist . He studied medicine at the Universities of Würzburg and Rostock. He earned his doctorate in 1864, and became an assistant to Gustav Veit at the University of Bonn. Afterwards he practiced medicine at the University of Erlangen and...

's tenure, that separate facilities for gynecology were established at Erlangen.

Selected publications

• De uteri sub graviditate metamorphosi. Würzburg 1818, Dissertation.
• De perforatione fetu licet vivo instituenda. Heyder, Erlangen 1833.
• De Asphyxia Infantium Recens Natorum. Heyder, Erlangen 1834.
• Die Anzeigen zu den geburtshülflichen Operationen. (Indices of Obstetrical Operations), Palm und Enke, Erlangen 1835.
• Die geburtshülflichen Operationen. (The Obstretrical Operation), Palm und Enke, Erlangen 1842.
• Quaedam ad artis obstetriciae, uti nunc exercetur, statum pertinentia. Junge, Erlangen 1843.
• Lehrbuch der Geburtshilfe. (Textbook of obstetrics), Heyder & Zimmer, Erlangen 1851.