Justus Heinrich Wigand (13 September 1769 – 10 February 1817) was a Baltic German obstetrician born in Reval (Tallinn).

Wigand studied medicine at the Universities of Jena and Erlangen, earning his doctorate at the latter. From 1793 to 1814 he was a physician in Hamburg, and afterwards lived in Heidelberg, Schwetzingen and Mannheim.

He is remembered for introducing an assisted breech delivery procedure known as the "Wigand maneuver".[1] His best written effort, "Die Geburt des Menschen" was published posthumously in 1820.

Selected publications

  • Von den Ursachen und der Behandlung der Nachgeburtszögerungen, 1803.
  • Drey den medicinischen Facultäten zu Paris und Berlin zur Prüfung übergebene geburtshülfliche Abhandlungen, 1812.
  • Die Geburt des Menschen in physiologisch- diätetischer und pathologisch- therapeutischer Beziehung, grösstentheils nach eigenen Beobachtungen und Versuchen dargestellt, 1820.

References

  1. ↑ Mondofacto Dictionary, definition of eponym
  • translated biography @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
  • Ottow (Benno).- Der Embryologe Sebastian Graf von Tredern und der Geburtshelfer Justus Heinrich Wigand in ihren Beziehungen zu Reval, Eesti Arst, Jg 1923, Nr 9, S. 253-256


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