Background
His father was the eminent botanist, Gottlieb Haberlandt, plant tissue culture theorist and visionary. His grandfather was the European "soybean" pioneer and trailblazer Friedrich J. Haberlandt.
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Ludwig Haberlandt
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Career
In 1921 he carried out experiments on rabbits and he demonstrated a temporary hormonal contraception in a female by transplanting ovaries from a second, pregnant, animal. In 1930 he began clinical trials after successful production of a hormonal preparation, Infecundin®, by the G. Richter Company in Budapest, Hungary. He ended his 1931 book, Die hormonale Sterilisierung des weiblichen Organismus, with a visionary claim: "Unquestionably, practical application of the temporary hormonal sterilization in women would markedly contribute to the ideal in human society already enunciated a generation earlier by Sigmund Freud (1898).
Theoretically, one of the greatest triumphs of mankind would be the elevation of procreation into a voluntary and deliberate acting" He was hounded for his views on reproductive biology up to his death from either suicide. or heart attack.
Membership
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
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Died
July 22, 1932 (aged 47) -
Nationality
Austria