Wilhelm Alexander Freund

Wilhelm Alexander Freund (26 August 1833 – 24 December 1917) was a German gynecologist who was a native of Krappitz, Silesia.

Born into a Jewish family,[1][2] in 1855 he earned his medical degree at the University of Breslau, afterwards practicing gynecology in the same city.

In January 1878, Freund performed the first abdominal extirpation of a cancerous uterus.

Twenty years later in 1898, Austrian gynecologist Ernst Wertheim (1864-1920) became the first physician to completely extirpate the uterus via the abdomen.

The eponymous "Freund's anomaly" is a narrowing of the upper thoracic aperture caused by a shortening of the first rib and associated cartilage.