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Jul 01, 1866 Munich, Bavaria, Germany Died on 17 Oct 1919 (aged 53)
German gynaecologist and university teacher (1866-1919)
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About Josef Albert Amann
- Josef Albert Amann (1 July 1866, in Munich – 17 October 1919, in Konstanz) was a German gynecologist.
- His father, Josef Albert Amann (1832–1906), was also a gynecologist. He studied medicine at the University of Munich, where his teachers included Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer, Otto Bollinger and Franz von Winckel.
- For several years he worked as an assistant at the university women's clinic in Munich, receiving his habilitation in 1892.
- In 1898 he succeeded his father as head of the second gynecological department at the Allgemeine Krankenhaus in Munich.
- In 1905 he became an associate professor at the university.He held a particular interest in the anatomy and histology of female genitalia.
- In 1897 he published Kurzgefasstes Lehrbuch der mikroskopisch-gynäkologischen Diagnostik, an influential textbook of microscopic gynecological diagnostics.
- Also, he is credited with introducing a surgery for creation of an artificial vagina in cases of congenital absence ("Amann's operation").
