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{{Short description|Austrian gynecologist and obstetrician}}
'''Johann Baptist Chiari''' (15 June 1817 – 11 December 1854) was an Austrian [[gynecologist]] and [[obstetrician]] born in [[Salzburg]].
In 1841 he received his medical doctorate at [[Vienna]], where he subsequently practiced obstetrics and gynecology for most of his professional career. In 1853 he became a professor of obstetrics at the [[Charles University in Prague|University of Prague]], and for a short time worked in the Josephinum of Vienna. He died in 1854 at the age of 37 from [[cholera]].
He was the father of [[pathologist]] [[Hans Chiari]] (1851–1916) and [[laryngologist|rhinolaryngologist]] [[Ottokar Chiari]] (1853–1918). He was the son-in-law of [[Johann Klein]],<ref>{{cite book | first = Ignaz | last = Semmelweis | others = K. Codell Carter (translator and extensive foreword) | title = Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever | publisher = University of Wisconsin Press, September 15, 1983 | year = 1861 | isbn = 0-299-09364-6 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/etiologyconcepta0000unse }} p123-124 footnote 1
</ref> to whom he was also an assistant at the first obstetrical clinic in Vienna from 1842 to 1844.
With [[Karl von Braun-Fernwald]] (1822–1891) and [[Joseph Späth]] (1823–1896), Chiari was co-publisher of an important handbook on [[obstetrics]] titled "''Klinik der Geburtshilfe und Gynäkologie''". This textbook was the first to present the theories of [[Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis]] (1818–1865) in regards to [[hygiene]] and prevention of the spread of [[puerperal fever]]. With German gynecologist [[Richard Frommel]] (1854–1912) the eponymous "[[Chiari-Frommel Syndrome]]" is named. This is a [[postnatal]] disorder that is also known as [[postpartum]] [[galactorrhea]]-[[amenorrhea]] syndrome.
==References==
* This article incorporates text based on a translation of an equivalent article at the [[German Wikipedia]].
* [http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1121.html ''Johann Baptist Chiari''] @ [[Who Named It]]
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