August Breisky

At Prague, he served for several years as an assistant to pathologist Václav Treitz (1819–1872) and obstetrician Bernhard Seyfert (1817–1870).

From October 1886, he was a professor of the second obstetrical clinic at the Vienna General Hospital,[1] succeeding Joseph Späth (1823–1896).

He died of an intestinal disease at the age of 57; his replacement in Vienna being Rudolf Chrobak (1843–1910).

He initially expressed doubts in regards to theories of puerperal fever that were espoused by Ignaz Semmelweis (1818–1865).

In 1871 he described pyometra and pyocolpos due to atresia of one half of a rudimentary vagina in a septate uterus.