Johann Lucas Boër [SEP] date of death
Johann Lucas Boër
Johann Lucas Boër (20 April 1751 in Uffenheim, "Grafschaft Ansbach" – 19 January 1835 in Alsergrund), originally Johann Lucas "Boogers" (sometimes spelled Rogers Lucas Johann Boër) was a German medical doctor and obstetrician.
Professional life.
Johann Lukas Boogers studied in Würzburg with Carl Caspar von Siebold. He moved to Vienna in 1771 where he became Magister in 1778. The surgeon Anton Josef Rechberger assigned Boogers to obstetrics and he soon worked at the maternity ward in Rechberger's St. Marxer
his death in 1861, he was director of the clinic for gynecology and obstetrics at University of Göttingen, succeeding Caspar Julius Mende. Von Siebold represented a traditional approach in obstetrics and did not embrace the great medical development at the time.
He travelled to Wien in 1847, partly to reach consensus with the so-called modern Vienna School that emphasized active obstetrical intervention by doctors, partly to study the work of Johann Lucas Boër who represented a more conservative trend in obstetrics. There he met Ignaz Semmelweis whose theories he could