Ernst Ludwig Alfred Hegar

He was born on 6 January 1830 in Darmstadt, Germany and died on 5 August 1914.

He studied medicine in Giessen, Heidelberg, Berlin and Vienna, and after graduation went into the army and worked as military physician.

Alfred Hegar was chosen to be the successor of Otto Spiegelberg as professor for gynecology and obstetrics at the University of Freiburg in 1864 and was the first head of the Universitäts-Frauenklinik of the University Medical Center Freiburg when it opened in 1868.

Hegar also founded the journal "Beiträge zur Geburthilfe und Gynäkologie" in 1898.

With gynecologist Rudolf Kaltenbach (1842–1893), he was co-author of Operative Gynäkologie, published in three editions.