Alfred Leber
Alfred liver ( born March 7, 1881 in Antwerp, † 1954 in Delhi, India) was a German eye and tropical medicine. The Göttingen university teachers is considered the founder of the German Tropical Ophthalmology.
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Life
Alfred liver was the nephew of the ophthalmologist Theodor Leber and influenced by it. After graduating from high school in 1899 in Viersen, he studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg, Munich and Berlin. He received his doctorate in 1905 in Heidelberg.
He first worked at the Berlin University Eye Hospital under its director Julius Michel. Decisive for this compartment career was not last attending his first South Sea Expedition in 1910/11 together with the tropical medicine Stanislaus von Prowazek at the Hamburg Tropical Institute to Samoa, Saipan and Sumatra.
At the Georg-August -Universität Göttingen liver was appointed in 1912 under the director of the local eye clinic Artur von Hippel promoted to full professor.
His second expedition was the medical- demographic German New Guinea Expedition 1913/14, the Imperial Colonial Office, which was also the tropical medicine Professor Ludwig Külz as his deputy leader of the expedition as well as the painter Emil Nolde and his wife Ada participated. This expedition ended immediately before the beginning of the First World War. While Nolde and his wife when back also found under adventurous circumstances and with the loss of large parts of the luggage, the way even after Germany, the liver en route to Germany was cut off. He had left Rabaul on 27 July on board the " Manila " which was seized in Ambonia by the Dutch.
In the Central Hospital of Deli in Sumatra he initially found a job. In Malang on Java, he became in 1916 director of a hospital for eye and tropical diseases. His traveling companion, the poet Max Dauthendey died in 1918 in this hospital.
End of July 1922 he returned to Germany. The hope of obtaining there as a professor on leave Göttingen University employment as a high school teacher, deceptive. So he returned to Java, where he again ran a clinic in Malang in the 1930s.
On 10 or May 11, 1940 he and his wife were interned in separate prisons, auctioned their possessions. Like other German men in the Dutch East Indies in 1942, he moved for fear of a Japanese invasion to India in the camp for German prisoners in Dehradun Asia, where there is also, among other things Heinrich Harrer ( in the national- socialist division) and Anagarika Govinda, the founder of the Arya Maitreya Mandala, and Nyanaponika are. After his release on November 5, 1946, he was unable to return to devastated Germany. He soon found employment as a director of the eye clinic at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Bhopal. In 1952 he became a full professor at the Muslim University Aligarh, Director of the Institute of Ophthalmology and Dean of the Faculty.
Family
His first wife Dorothy, nee von Fritsch he learned in Sumatra know. They married on December 8, 1919 in Malang. The divorce took place in 1933, Dorothy returned to Germany.
The following year married the liver nurse Lotte, born Junius, in Surabaya. After her arrest, her departure was how many wives allowed in Japanese territory. On March 7, 1943, she died in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, probably by his own hand.
Literature and sources
- Ada Nolde: Some memories a scheduled lecture on the common South Pacific Travel in: Emil Nolde - The South Sea Travel 1913 - 1914, pp. 43-71. .
- Manfred Reuther (ed.): Emil Nolde - The South Seas Travel 1913-1914 German - English catalog to the exhibition in Berlin.. DuMont Cologne 2008. ISBN 978-3-8321-9083-5
- Manfred Reuther: Emil Nolde's " East Asia and the ride was moving South Seas Travel in: Emil Nolde - The South Sea Travel 1913 - 1914, pp. 21-27. .
- Rainald osculating: Alfred liver, founder of the German Tropenophtalmologie. Diss Univ. Dusseldorf, 1992
- John W. Grüntzig, Heinz Mehlhorn: Alfred Th liver (1881-1954): A pioneer of Tropical Ophthalmology - lost in the South Pacific - in India rediscovered 1992 Abstract
- John W. Grüntzig, Heinz Mehlhorn: Expeditions into the realm of epidemics. Medical Forlorn the German Kaiser and colonial period, Elsevier, Munich 2005