About Franz Breit
Lived 1817 – 1868 (aged 50–51). Franz Breit was an Austrian physician, obstetrician, university teacher and gynecologist.
Franz Breit (1 July 1817, in Mieders – 17 August 1868, in Tübingen) was an Austrian obstetrician.
He studied medicine in Vienna, Prague and Padua, and was later an obstetrician and assistant to professor Johann Klein of the maternity clinic at the Vienna General Hospital in Austria. He was appointed to professor and chair of obstetrics at the University of Tübingen on 20 March 1847 allowing Ignaz Semmelweis to become assistant to the professor. Franz Breit succeeded Eduard Lumpe as assistant to professor Klein.
Among his written works were three obstetrical treatises published in Roser and Wunderlich's Archiv für physiologische Heilkunde.
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Who was Franz Breit?
Austrian obstetrician
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Franz Breit was born in 1817 in Mieders.
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Franz Breit died in 1868 in Tübingen.
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Franz Breit was a physician, obstetrician, university teacher and gynecologist.
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Franz Breit was Austrian.
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