Carl Wilhelm von Zehender

Carl Wilhelm von Zehender, actually: William of Zehender ( born July 1, 1819 in Bremen, † December 19, 1916 in Rostock- Warnemünde) was a German physician and professor of ophthalmology of the 19th century.

Carl Wilhelm came from the Bernese council Zehender family. He devoted himself to the study of medicine in Göttingen, Jena, Prague, Paris and Vienna. During his studies, he became in 1842 a member of the fraternity Arminia on the castle cellar in Jena. From 1856 he was a specialist of the Grand Duke George of Mecklenburg -Strelitz and was also the " Correspondenzblatt for doctors in the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg -Strelitz " out. In September 1857 he was a participant of a small gathering of the most important German Ophthalmologists ( including Albrecht von Graefe, Ferdinand von Arlt and Franciscus Cornelis Donders ) in Heidelberg. These repeated annual meeting led to the founding of the "Heidelberg Ophthalmological Society ," from 1920, the " German Ophthalmological Society " was. Zehender was board member here from Begin until 1899. From 1863 he also acted as editor of the substantiated by the " Clinical Monatsblätter ophthalmology ". About a Chair in Berne he arrived in 1866 as an honorary professor at the University of Rostock. From 1869 he worked there as a full professor at the Chair and Clinic. There he developed the slit lamp microscope for examining anterior sections of the eye. When his efforts failed to build a own eye clinic, he put his offices there in 1889 and moved to Munich. Here he turned back to the editors of the "Clinical Monatsblätter ophthalmology ". Finally Together with his wife he moved 1907 Eutin to Warnemünde. There he died at the age of 98 and was buried " Stephan Jantzen " without a grave stone in today's landscape park.