Ludwig Haberlandt
| Ludwig Haberlandt | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1 February 1885 Graz |
| Died |
22 July 1932 (aged 47) Suicide |
| Nationality | Austria |
| Known for | Hormonal contraception |
Ludwig Haberlandt (1 February 1885 – 22 July 1932) is known as a father of hormonal contraception. In 1921 he carried out experiments on rabbits and he demonstrated a temporary hormonal contraception in a female by transplanting ovaries from a second, pregnant, animal.
His father was the eminent botanist, Gottlieb Haberlandt, plant tissue culture theorist and visionary; his grandfather was the European 'soybean' pioneer and trailblazer Friedrich J. Haberlandt.[1][2]
In 1930 he began clinical trials after successful production of a hormonal preparation, Infecundin®, by the G. Richter Company in Budapest, Hungary. He ended his 1931 book, Die hormonale Sterilisierung des weiblichen Organismus, with a visionary claim: 'Unquestionably, practical application of the temporary hormonal sterilization in women would markedly contribute to the ideal in human society already enunciated a generation earlier by Sigmund Freud (1898). Theoretically, one of the greatest triumphs of mankind would be the elevation of procreation into a voluntary and deliberate act.' He was hounded for his views on reproductive biology up to his death from either suicide.[3][4] or heart attack. [5]
References
- ↑ http://www.soyinfocenter.com/HSS/friedrich_haberlandt1.php
- ↑ http://www.springerlink.com/content/n055345662r754w0/
- ↑ http://www.springerlink.com/content/n055345662r754w0/
- ↑ http://www.springerlink.com/content/0548583t7788r763/
- ↑ https://www.inkling.com/read/clinical-gynecologic-endocrinology-infertility-8th/chapter-22/the-history-of-oral
- Haberlandt, Edda (2009). "Ludwig Haberlandt--A pioneer in hormonal contraception". Wien. Klin. Wochenschr. Austria. 121 (23-24): 746–9. doi:10.1007/s00508-009-1280-x. PMID 20047112.
- Djerassi, Carl (2009). "Ludwig Haberlandt--"Grandfather of the Pill"". Wien. Klin. Wochenschr. Austria. 121 (23-24): 727–8. doi:10.1007/s00508-009-1271-y. PMID 20047108.
- Müller-Jahncke, W D (Aug 1988). "Ludwig Haberlandt (1885–1932) and the development of hormonal contraception". Z Gesamte Inn Med (in German). GERMANY, EAST. 43 (15): 420–2. ISSN 0044-2542. PMID 3051743.