François Joseph Herrgott

François Joseph Herrgott (12 September 1814, Guebwiller – 4 March 1907, Nancy) was a French surgeon and obstetrician.

In 1839 he graduated from the University of Strasbourg, where he was a student of Louis Jacques Bégin (1793–1859) and Joseph-Alexis Stoltz (1803–1896).

From 1872 he was associated with the Faculté de médecine at Nancy, where in 1879 he succeeded his former mentor, Joseph-Alexis Stoltz, as chair at the clinic of obstetrics.

A few years later he was appointed director of the Maternité et de l'École départementale des sages-femmes.

[1] In addition to numerous medical papers, he was the author of translated obstetrical writings by Soranus of Ephesus, and a translation of the known historical work on obstetrics by Eduard Caspar Jacob von Siebold (1801–1861).