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Justine Siegemund

1636 - 1705

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Justine Siegemund, or Siegemundin, (born Justine Diettrich; 26 December 1636 – 10 November 1705) was a Silesian midwife. Her obstetrical book, The Court Midwife (1690), was the first German medical text written by a woman. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Justine Siegemund is the 4,443rd most popular writer (up from 5,873rd in 2019). (up from 4,427th in 2019)

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Among writers, Justine Siegemund ranks 4,443 out of 7,302Before her are Vicente Espinel, Dmitry Grigorovich, Kathy Acker, Josephine Diebitsch Peary, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Joe Eszterhas. After her are Nicholas Pileggi, Yōko Ogawa, Vladislav Khodasevich, Grace Elliott, Alexander Odoevsky, and Peter Carey.

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Among people born in 1636, Justine Siegemund ranks 15Before her are Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Edward Colston, Nikolai Spathari, Libéral Bruant, Charles de La Fosse, and Melchiorre Cafà. After her are Jan Chryzostom Pasek, Gregório de Matos, and Thomas Traherne. Among people deceased in 1705, Justine Siegemund ranks 20Before her are Guillaume Amontons, Bada Shanren, Princess Wilhelmine Ernestine of Denmark, Princess Luise Dorothea of Prussia, Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Johann Ernst Glück. After her is Titus Oates.

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