Ernst Gräfenberg
Ernst Gräfenberg · Science & Medicine
Gynaecologist who devised the first practical intrauterine device, the Gräfenberg ring
26 September 1881, Adelebsen, Germany — 28 October 1957, New York City, United States
Germany · United States
Ernst Gräfenberg is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Gynaecologist who devised the first practical intrauterine device, the Gräfenberg ring
Ernst Gräfenberg's father headed the Jewish community of Adelebsen. Working in Berlin, he developed in 1929 the first practical intrauterine contraceptive device, the silver Gräfenberg ring, and published on the physiology of the female urethra. As a Jew he was forced out of his hospital post in 1933, was imprisoned, and reached New York in 1940 after Margaret Sanger arranged his ransom; he practised there until his death.
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Gynaecologist who devised the first practical intrauterine device, the Gräfenberg ring
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