Sign up to our new free Indy100 weekly newsletter Written in German, it was read and translated into multiple different languages. It contained accounts of Siegmemund’s experience and advice for others in the role. In 1690, The Court Midwife was first published and was soon to become one of the most important books in midwifery history. She married the Lutheran minister, Andreas Siegemund, and the pair had six children. Siegemund was born in Prenzlau, Germany on 26 December 1636 and went on to learn midwifery from her mother, who was also in the profession.
The seminal book, The Court Midwife, was certified by the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) as an official medical textbook on 23 March 1690, making her the first woman in Germany to publish a medical text. Siegemund (26 December 1636 – 10 November 1705) was a midwife in the 17th century and was the first person in her country of Germany to write an obstetrics book from a woman’s perspective, challenging the patriarchal attitudes of the time.
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