August Siegrist

August Siegrist ( born May 20, 1865 in Basel, † December 13, 1947 ) was a Swiss ophthalmologist. He is a brother of the doctor Albert Siegrist.

After studying in Basel, Zurich, Bern, Lausanne and Vienna he acquired in 1892 in Vienna medical doctorate. He then acquired further knowledge in the Department of Surgery at Berne Emil Theodor Kocher (1841-1917), at the Eye Clinic of Lausanne at Marc Dufour (1843-1910), in Bern at Ernst Pflüger (1846-1903) and in Vienna with Ernst Fuchs ( 1851-1930 ).

Finally, he completed his habilitation in 1900 in Basel in ophthalmology. 1903 to 1935 he was Professor and Director of the University Eye Hospital Bern, on whose foundation he had significant portion.

Siegrist is best known as a pioneer in the development of contact lens. He is the first use of contact lenses attributed that were 1916 then still blown away by the Brothers Mueller from Wiesbaden glass. Four years later he participated in the development of the first ground contact lenses from Zeiss.

According to him, the Siegrist- spots and Siegrist Strip and the Siegrist- Hutchinson 's syndrome have been designated.

The well-known ophthalmologist Hans Goldmann was from 1924 assistant Siegrist.

Works

• Contributions to the knowledge of the nature and seat of the ophthalmic Hemicrania 1894 (Dissertation)
• Festival to commemorate the opening of the new University Eye Hospital in Bern in 1910
• Refraction and accommodation of the human eye: With consideration of the doctrine of the glasses ..., Berlin, 1925.
• The gray senile cataract, its causes and its nonsurgical treatment. Berlin & Vienna, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1928
• The scrofulous ophthalmia. Berlin and Vienna 1931.