Johann Jakob Fried

Johann Jakob Fried (21 April 1689, Strasbourg, France – 3 September 1769, Strasbourg) was a obstetrician who lived in an area then controlled by France. He is sometimes referred to as the "Father of German midwifery". His son, Georg Albrecht Fried (1736-1773), was also a noted obstetrician.

In 1710 he obtained his doctorate from the University of Strasbourg with a dissertation thesis titled ""De cordis palpitatione". From 1728 onward, he was director of the Prätor Franz Josef von Klinglin municipal midwifery school in Strasbourg, a popular school that attracted students from throughout Europe. He was considered an excellent teacher, Among his better known pupils was future Göttingen professor, Johann Georg Roederer. "Gravidarum urinae suppressio, non remidiis internis, sed catheteris adplicatione, unicae curanda", in: Acta physico-medica Ac. Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae, ebd. 1742, S. 422-25.