Friedrich Benjamin Osiander
German obstetrician
Died when: 63 years 105 days (759 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Friedrich Benjamin Osiander (9 February 1759, Zell unter Aichelberg – 25 May 1822, Göttingen) was an obstetrician at Göttingen, who invented uterine traction forceps.
He was the father of obstetrician Johann Friedrich Osiander.He studied medicine at the University of Tübingen, and following graduation (1779), settled as a general practitioner in Kirchheim unter Teck.
In 1792 he became an associate professor of obstetrics at the University of Göttingen.
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