Arthur von Hippel (physician)

Arthur von Hippel ( born January 24, 1841 in Fischhausen at pillau, East Prussia, † 1916 in Göttingen ) was a German ophthalmologist.

Life

Arthur von Hippel was the son of Königsberg Judicial Council. He attended high school in Kneiphöfsche Königsberg and studied in Königsberg, Würzburg and Berlin. In the winter semester 1860/61 he was a member of the fraternity Germania Königsberg. After graduation, he went to training to Prague, Vienna ( in Ferdinand von Arlt ) and Paris. In 1868 the Habilitation, 1874, he was associate professor, full professor in 1879 in Giessen. In 1890 he followed a call to Königsberg position at the University Eye Clinic. This clinic was founded in 1873 by the ophthalmologist Julius Jacobson at the Albertus University of Königsberg was the first university eye clinic. 1892 moved to Halle Hippel, later to Göttingen.

Of the students, he demanded a high level of training; he demanded of them for the exam the implementation of the iridectomy.

" When we hear and read by A. von Hippel, we get the impression of a real Prussia the best time, which had received its decisive character in his childhood nor by the idealism of Kant and humanism von Humboldt. "

Scientific work

Hippel continued the work of Julius Jacobson. He was a member of which was founded by Hermann von Helmholtz Association in 1850 for scientific medicine and gave - not only in the short period of his stay in Königsberg - produces numerous publications. At the Konigsberg clinic he led the eye pressure measurement for each (older) patients, conducted research on the color blindness and led, Eberhard Kunz According to ( see Literature ), 1891 First cornea transplants. For this he was awarded the Albrecht von Graefe Award 1891 in Berlin.