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Justine Siegemund

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German midwife who wrote a book on midwifery

WritersLived 1636 to 1705 · aged 68
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Justine Siegemund, or Siegemundin, was a Silesian midwife. Her obstetrical book, The Court Midwife (1690), was the first German medical text written by a woman.

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Writers born in the 1630s 6

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Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1636 to 1705 · aged 68
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19 languages

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