Education
University of Bamberg.
Obstetrician university professor
University of Bamberg.
He earned his medical degree from the University of Bamberg, afterwards opening a medical practice in Barmen. In 1807 he became an associate professor at the University of Heidelberg, where in 1810 he was appointed a full professor of obstetrics. He is remembered for "Naegele"s rule", a standard method of calculating the due date for a pregnancy.
His name is also lent to "Naegele"s obliquity", also known as an anterior asynclytism.