Regina Josepha von Siebold, née Henning (14 December 1771 – 28 February 1849), was a German physician and obstetrician, born in Geismar.
[2] Siebold was raised by her prosperous uncle Regierungsrat Lorenz Henning, a city councilman of Heiligenstadt who had no children of his own.
Damian and his father, Carl Casper von Siebold were part of an imperial noble family in Würzburg.
She assisted her husband in his practice and with the influence and help of her father-in-law and uncle, began attending graduate courses on gynecology at the University of Würzburg.
[3] Though she was only allowed to listen to lectures from behind a curtain, Regina Josepha completed the required gynecology courses at the University of Würzburg.