Farewell to Frank Loeffler

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We are sad to announce that Frank Loeffler has expressed his wish to retire from the Editorial Board of “Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics”. He has been member of the board since 1986. The publisher and his colleagues at the Board appreciated his engagement over the years. Many manuscripts submitted to us from various countries have considerably been improved by his interventions. He seemed to suffer personally from reading bad English, sometimes. Not only he took care in polishing the style of the many authors whose native tongue is not English; his input was not at the least scientifically factual as well. After the manuscript had passed Loeffler’s desk, the author found him/herself often enough surprisingly confronted with a much better paper than previously submitted. Frank Loeffler is a most critical gynaecologist, his clinical knowledge is immense, his devotion to scientific thinking exemplary. …