Robert Michaelis von Olshausen (July 3, 1835 – February 1, 1915) was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 obstetrician and gynecologist who was a native of Kiel

Kiel

Kiel is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 238,049 .Kiel is approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the north of Germany, the southeast of the Jutland peninsula, and the southwestern shore of the...

. In 1857 he earned his doctorate from Königsberg

University of Königsberg

The University of Königsberg was the university of Königsberg in East Prussia. It was founded in 1544 as second Protestant academy by Duke Albert of Prussia, and was commonly known as the Albertina....

, and subsequently was a medical assistant in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

 and Halle an der Saale. In 1863 he became a professor at Halle, and in 1887 returned to Berlin as successor to Karl Ludwig Ernst 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...

 (1838–1887) as director of the university Frauenklinik. He was the son of Justus Olshausen

Justus Olshausen

Justus Olshausen was a German orientalist who made contributions to Semitic and Iranian philology.-Biography:...

 (1800–82), who was a professor of Oriental languages at the University of Kiel

University of Kiel

The University of Kiel is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1665 as the Academia Holsatorum Chiloniensis by Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and has approximately 23,000 students today...

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Robert Olshausen is credited with introducing new obstetrical techniques into surgery

Surgery

Surgery is an ancient medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, or to help improve bodily function or appearance.An act of performing surgery may be called a surgical...

. He was publisher of the journal Zeitschrift für Geburtshilfe und Gynäkologie, and with Johann Veit

Johann Veit

Johann Veit was a German gynecologist. He was the son of obstetrician and gynecologist Gustav Veit ....

 (1852–1917) edited Karl Schroeder's Lehrbuch der Geburtshülfe.

Associated eponym

• Olshausen's suspension: Suturing of ligament
  Ligament
  In anatomy, the term ligament is used to denote any of three types of structures. Most commonly, it refers to fibrous tissue that connects bones to other bones and is also known as articular ligament, articular larua, fibrous ligament, or true ligament.Ligament can also refer to:* Peritoneal...
  
  s to the abdominal wall for retroversion of the uterus
  Uterus
  The uterus or womb is a major female hormone-responsive reproductive sex organ of most mammals including humans. One end, the cervix, opens into the vagina, while the other is connected to one or both fallopian tubes, depending on the species...
  
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