François Joseph Herrgott

François Joseph Herrgott (1814 to 1907) was a French surgeon and obstetrician, born in Guebwiller. He graduated from the University of Strasbourg in 1839, where he had studied under Louis Jacques Bégin and Joseph-Alexis Stoltz. In 1841 he moved to Belfort and in 1849 became chief surgeon at its hospital, then won his agrégation at Strasbourg in 1854 and served as chief physician of the Hôpital Civil there. From 1872 he was attached to the medical faculty at Nancy, where in 1879 he succeeded his old teacher Stoltz as chair of the obstetrics clinic, and he later directed the maternity hospital and the departmental school for midwives. His writings include translations of obstetrical works by Soranus of Ephesus and Eduard von Siebold, a work on accidents of chloroform anesthesia (1869), a study of the treatment of vesico-vaginal fistulae (1874), and a historical notice on Ignaz Semmelweis and antisepsis (1893).