Bruno Fleischer

Bruno Otto Fleischer ( born 2 May 1874 in Stuttgart, † March 26, 1965 in Erlangen, Germany ) was a German ophthalmologist.

Life

Bruno Fleischer, born on May 2, 1874 in Stuttgart, devoted himself after high school studying medicine at the universities of Tübingen, Geneva and Berlin, where he graduated in Tübingen in 1898 with the acquisition of the academic degree of Dr. med. As a result, Fleischer was there as an assistant at the eye clinic before 1904 for Ophthalmology habilitated in 1909 and was appointed associate professor. As a student in Tübingen, he joined in the winter semester 1892/93 Academic hedgehog connection to Tübingen.

In 1920, Bruno Fleischer called to the University of Erlangen for the chair of ophthalmology. Fleischer, who had not joined like many of his generation colleagues of the NSDAP, filled this position until his retirement in 1951. Bruno Fleischer died on March 26, 1965 a few weeks before his 91st birthday in Erlangen.

Bruno Fleischer described in 1903 independently of the work published in 1902 by his colleague Bernhard Kayser is now called the two of them Kayser- Fleischer ring in Wilson 's disease. Was also named after him the Fleischer ring, iron deposition in the outer epithelial cells. Characteristic they are to be interrupted usually yellowish to dark brown and can continuously.

Publications

• About a case of acrania with Amnionverwachsung and lateral nasal column and a case of Nothencephalie: a contribution to the theory of Hemicephalie, 1898
• Contributions to the Histology of the lacrimal gland and to the doctrine of Secretgranula, 1904
• Prevention of hereditary eye disorders: speech on the occasion of the acquisition of the Rector, held on November 4, 1929, 1930