Richard Julius Ernst Frommel was a German obstetrician and gynecologist who was a native of Augsburg. In 1877 he received his medical doctorate at the University of Würzburg, and for the next ten years practiced medicine in Vienna, Berlin and Munich. At Berlin he was an assistant to gynecologist Karl Ludwig Ernst Schroeder (1838-1887). From 1887 until 1901 he was director of the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Erlangen. Wikipedia
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