François Joseph Herrgott

Who is François Joseph Herrgott?

François Joseph Herrgott was a French surgeon and obstetrician.

In 1839 he graduated from the University of Strasbourg, where he was a student of Louis Jacques Bégin and Joseph-Alexis Stoltz. In 1841 he relocated to Belfort, where in 1849 he was appointed chief surgeon at the Hôpital de Belfort. In 1854 he obtained his agrégation at Strasbourg, later becoming chief physician of the Hôpital Civil in Strasbourg.

From 1872 he was associated with the Faculté de médecine at Nancy, where in 1879 he succeeded his former mentor, Joseph-Alexis Stoltz, as chair at the clinic of obstetrics. A few years later he was appointed director of the Maternité et de l'École départementale des sages-femmes.