August Breisky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

August Breisky

Czech gynecologist and university educator

Date of Birth: 25-Mar-1832

Place of Birth: Klatovy, Plzeň Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 25-May-1889

Profession: physician, pedagogue, university teacher, gynaecologist, obstetrician

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About August Breisky

  • Professor August Breisky (25 March 1832, Klattau (Klatovy), Bohemia (now Czech Republic) – 25 May 1889) was an Austrian gynecologist and obstetrician. He studied medicine in Prague, obtaining his M.D.
  • degree in 1855.
  • At Prague, he served for several years as an assistant to pathologist Václav Treitz (1819–1872) and obstetrician Bernhard Seyfert (1817–1870).
  • In 1865 he received his habilitation with a dissertation about the influence of kyphosis on the pelvic shape. Ordinary Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology to the Surgical School of Salzburg in 1866.
  • Ordinary Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Medical Faculty of Berne (1867–74).
  • Ordinary professor of obstetrics and gynæcology in Prague (1874–86).
  • His first work there was to introduce the strict practice of antiseptic principles.
  • From October 1886, he was a professor of the second obstetrical clinic at the Vienna General Hospital, succeeding Joseph Späth (1823–1896).
  • He died of an intestinal disease at the age of 57; his replacement in Vienna being Rudolf Chrobak (1843–1910). He initially expressed doubts in regards to theories of puerperal fever that were espoused by Ignaz Semmelweis (1818–1865).
  • Later he became an advocate of Semmelweis' teachings. He is credited with developing a method for determining accurate measurements of the pelvis.
  • In 1871 he described pyometra and pyocolpos due to atresia of one half of a rudimentary vagina in a septate uterus.
  • Also, he was the first physician to describe kraurosis vulvae.

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