Ludwig Haberlandt
Born1 February 1885
Graz
Died22 July 1932 (1932-07-23) (aged 47)
NationalityAustrian
Known forHormonal contraception

Ludwig Haberlandt (1 February 1885 – 22 July 1932) is known as a father of hormonal contraception. In 1921 he carried out experiments on rabbits and he demonstrated a temporary hormonal contraception in a female by transplanting ovaries from a second, pregnant, animal.

His father was the eminent botanist, Gottlieb Haberlandt, plant tissue culture theorist and visionary; his grandfather was the European 'soybean' pioneer and trailblazer Friedrich J. Haberlandt.[1][2]

In 1930 he began clinical trials after successful production of a hormonal preparation, Infecundin®, by the G. Richter Company in Budapest, Hungary. He ended his 1931 book, Die hormonale Sterilisierung des weiblichen Organismus, with a visionary claim: 'Unquestionably, practical application of the temporary hormonal sterilization in women would markedly contribute to the ideal in human society already enunciated a generation earlier by Sigmund Freud (1898). Theoretically, one of the greatest triumphs of mankind would be the elevation of procreation into a voluntary and deliberate act.' He was hounded for his views on reproductive biology up to his death from either suicide,[3][4] or heart attack.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Friedrich J. Haberlandt Part 1 - History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in the United States 1766-1900".
  2. ↑ Haberlandt, Edda (2009). "Ludwig Haberlandt – A pioneer in hormonal contraception". Wiener klinische Wochenschrift. 121 (23–24): 746–749. doi:10.1007/s00508-009-1280-x. PMID 20047112. S2CID 26130907.
  3. ↑ Haberlandt, Edda (2009). "Ludwig Haberlandt – A pioneer in hormonal contraception". Wiener klinische Wochenschrift. 121 (23–24): 746–749. doi:10.1007/s00508-009-1280-x. PMID 20047112. S2CID 26130907.
  4. ↑ Djerassi, Carl (2009). "Ludwig Haberlandt – "Grandfather of the Pill"". Wiener klinische Wochenschrift. 121 (23–24): 727–728. doi:10.1007/s00508-009-1271-y. PMID 20047108.
  5. ↑ "Unsupported Browser".


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