Christian Gerhard Leopold
Christian Gerhard Leopold was a German gynecologist born in Meerane, Saxony.
In 1870 he earned his medical doctorate from the University of Leipzig, where he studied under Carl Siegmund Franz Credé, who would later become his father-in-law. From 1877 until 1883 he taught midwifery at the Frauenklinik in Leipzig, and afterwards succeeded Franz von Winckel as director of the Dresden Royal Gynecological Infirmary.
Leopold is remembered for the eponymous "Leopold maneuvers", which are four classic maneuvers used to determine the position of the fetus within the uterus. Beginning in 1894 he was co-editor of the Archiv für Gynäkologie with Adolf Gusserow. Also, with Dr. Credé and Paul Zweifel, he published textbooks on midwifery.
N.B. - Leopold Landau, who was also a German gynecologist born around this time, may be confused with Christian Gerhard Leopold.
