David Flamm ( Polish. Dawid Flamm ; 1793 , Kalisz - November 12, 1876 , Hamburg ) - Polish gynecologist .
Flämm, who had Jewish roots, studied medicine in Berlin and Wroclaw , became a doctor of medicine. He worked as a doctor in Kalisz ( 1818 - 1833 ) and Warsaw ( 1833 - 1862 ). He was the first doctor in the Kingdom of Poland , who gave birth using a caesarean section .
In 1845 adopted the Lutheran faith. In 1862 he left for Hamburg, where he also worked as a doctor. He died there. He was buried in the Lutheran cemetery of Warsaw .
Literature
- Eugeniusz Szulc, Cmentarz Ewangelicko-Augsburski w Warszawie , Warszawa 1979, pp. 128-129
- Edmund Waszyński, Marian Obara, Sylwetki zasłużonych ginekologów polskich , Polskie Towarzystwo Ginekologiczne, Oddział w Poznaniu, Poznań 1991, pp. 46-47
- Danuta Wańka, Dawid Flamm , w: Słownik biograficzny Wielkopolski południowo-wschodniej ziemi kaliskiej , Volume I (, Kaliskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk, Kalisz 1998, pp. 97-98