Alexander Pagenstecher

Friedrich Hermann Alexander Page Stecher (* April 21, 1828 in Wallau, † December 31, 1879 in Wiesbaden ) was a German ophthalmologist and founder of the eye clinic in Wiesbaden.

Family

He was the son of Friedrich Oberforstrat Page engraver (1793-1865) from Dillenburg and Charlotte, nee Schenk ( 1808-1870 ).

1853 married Pagenstecherstraße Johanna Heller, daughter of a botany professor from Würzburg. The couple had four children (two daughters and two sons ).

Page Stecher died as a result of injuries he had sustained in a hunting accident with his own gun near the hunting lodge in Wiesbaden. He was buried at the old cemetery in Wiesbaden.

Education and work

After graduating from junior high school and high school, studied Pagenstecherstraße 1846 Medicine in Giessen, Heidelberg and Würzburg (including with Rudolf Virchow ), where he became in 1849 a doctorate ( MD ). Since 1847 he was a member of the Corps Teutonia casting and Nassovia Heidelberg. After the medical state examination 1850 in Wiesbaden, he went the following year to Paris to study ophthalmology.

In 1852, Page Stecher worked in Wiesbaden as an assistant at the local Civil Hospital, opened in 1853 in private practice in ophthalmology and met in the course of study tours ( Zurich, London and Berlin) together with well-known German ophthalmologists as Albrecht von Graefe and Johann Friedrich Horner. In 1856 he founded the eye clinic Wiesbaden, over which he presided until his death as a director.

As a specialist hospital that treated free of charge, especially destitute eye patients, the device was recognized pioneer and internationally. It was financed mainly by donations.

Performance

Page Stecher was surgeon of international reputation, especially in the field of cataract and glaucoma ( glaucoma) - he performed about 2,000 cataract operations themselves. Page Stecher is considered the inventor of the intracapsular - surgical removal of the lens of the eye with a special spoon instrument (1866 ). He also described the surgical correction of Oberlidsenkung (ptosis ) by twofold in subcutaneous suture brewing height. He developed a yellow precipitate ointment was used worldwide.

1861 to 1866, he served as editor of Clinical observations from the eye clinic at Wiesbaden.

Works

• Clinical observations from the eye clinic in Wiesbaden ( with T. Sämisch and Arnold Page engraver). 1861/62
• Concerning the Extraction of gray Stares at uneröffneter capsule through the Skleralschnitt. Wiesbaden 1866