Christian Gerhard Leopold (February 24, 1846 - September 12, 1911) was a German gynecologist who was born in Meerane

Meerane

Meerane is a town in the Zwickau district of Saxony, Germany. It lies midway between the towns of Chemnitz and Zwickau.As of 31 December 2008, there were 16,517 inhabitants...

, Saxony

Saxony

The Free State of Saxony is a landlocked state of Germany, contingent with Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with of Germany's sixteen states....

. In 1870 he earned his medical doctorate from the University of Leipzig

University of Leipzig

The University of Leipzig , located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, is one of the oldest universities in the world and the second-oldest university in Germany...

, where he studied under Carl Siegmund Franz Credé

Carl Siegmund Franz Credé

Carl Siegmund Franz Credé was a German gynecologist and obstetrician who was a native of Berlin. In 1842 he received his doctorate from the University of Berlin. In 1852 he became director of the "Berlin School of Midwives" and chief physician of the maternity division at the Berlin Charité...

 (1819-1892), who would later become his father-in-law. From 1877 until 1883 he taught midwifery

Midwifery

Midwifery is a health care profession in which providers offer care to childbearing women during pregnancy, labour and birth, and during the postpartum period. They also help care for the newborn and assist the mother with breastfeeding....

 at the Frauenklinik in Leipzig

Leipzig

Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...

, and afterwards succeeded Franz von Winckel

Franz von Winckel

Franz Karl Ludwig Wilhelm von Winckel was a German gynecologist and obstetrician who was a native of Berleburg. In 1860 he received his medical doctorate from Berlin, and in 1864 became a professor of gynecology in Rostock...

 (1837-1911) as director of the Dresden

Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....

 Royal Gynecological Infirmary.

Leopold is remembered for the eponymous "Leopold maneuvers" (Leopold-Handgriffe), which are four classic maneuvers used to determine the position of the fetus

Fetus

A fetus is a developing mammal or other viviparous vertebrate after the embryonic stage and before birth.In humans, the fetal stage of prenatal development starts at the beginning of the 11th week in gestational age, which is the 9th week after fertilization.-Etymology and spelling variations:The...

 within the uterus

Uterus

The uterus or womb is a major female hormone-responsive reproductive sex organ of most mammals including humans. One end, the cervix, opens into the vagina, while the other is connected to one or both fallopian tubes, depending on the species...

. Beginning in 1894 he was co-editor of the Archiv für Gynäkologie with Adolf Gusserow

Adolf Gusserow

Adolf Ludwig Sigismund Gusserow was a German gynecologist who was a native of Berlin. He married Clara Oppenheim , a descendant of Berlin banker Joseph Mendelssohn....

 (1836-1906). Also, with Dr. Credé and Paul Zweifel

Paul Zweifel

Paul Zweifel was a German gynecologist and physiologist. In 1876 he proved that the fetus was metabolically active....

 (1848-1927), he published textbooks on midwifery.

N.B. - Leopold Landau

Leopold Landau

Leopold Landau was a German gynecologist born in Warsaw.He studied medicine at the Universities of Breslau, Würzburg and Berlin, obtaining his doctorate at the latter institution in 1870. After serving as an assistant surgeon during the Franco-Prussian War, he was a lecturer in gynecology at the...

, who was also a German gynecologist born around this time, may be confused with Christian Gerhard Leopold.