Gallery of Prominent European Midwives

AGNODICE-Athens

BLACKWELL-Elizabeth(1712-1770)

BOIVIN-Marie-Anne(1773-1841)

BOURGEOIS-Louyse(1563-1636)

CHARRIER-Clémentine (1797-?)

DESCHAMPS-Euphrosine (1802-?)

DUCOUDRAY-Marguerite (1712-1789)

DUGÈS-Marie (1730-1797)

HOLLEVILLE-Marguerite (1789-?)

HORENBURGIN-AnneElizabeth (1675-?)

LACHAPELLE-MarieLouise (1769-1829)

LAMARCHE-Marguerite (1638-1706)

LEGRAND-Madelaine (?1790-?)

LUCINA-Roman patroness of women in labor

NIHELL-Elizabeth (1723-c1773)

PERRETTE (1400s)

SIEGEMUNDIN-Justine (1636-1705))

St MARGUERITE, patroness of midwives

TROTULA (13th-Century)

WYTTENBACH-Jeannette (1773-1830)