Ludwig Franz Alexander Winther

Ludwig Franz Alexander Winther ( born March 9, 1812 in Offenbach am Main, † April 26, 1871 in Gießen ) was a German pathologist and ophthalmologist (eye doctor).

Life

Winther studied from summer semester 1831 medicine at the University of Giessen, where he became in 1831 a member of the Old Giessen fraternity Germania and 1833 the Corps Palatia. From 1848 to 1867 he was associate professor of general pathology and therapy, and from 1867 until his death in 1871 first professor of general pathology and pathological anatomy at the University of Giessen.

Winther 1847 was a founding member of the Giessen special collar, a faculty association at the University of Giessen.

He was the son of the ophthalmologist Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Balser.

Publications

• Enteric fever. A physiological- pathological attempt casting 1842 ( habilitation thesis )
• Studies on the construction of the cornea and the pterygium, casting 1856
• For histology the human cornea, in: Virchows Archiv, 1856, Volume X, pp. 506f.
• Textbook of Ophthalmology, Giessen 1856
• Textbook of general pathological anatomy of the tissues of man, casting 1860
• Experimental studies on the pathology of pterygium, 1866
• Presentations at the meetings of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Physicians, 1861, 1864, 1867, 1868 ( published in: Schmidt's Yearbooks, Vol 114, Vol 124, Vol 136, Vol 140)