Julius Hirschberg

Julius Hirschberg ( born September 18, 1843 in Potsdam, † February 17, 1925 in Berlin) was a German ophthalmologist, high school teacher and historian of medicine.

Curriculum vitae

Julius Hirschberg studied in Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1866 and 1867 received his license. Since 1868, he was first in the hospital Albrecht von Graefe worked as an ophthalmologist and settled down in 1869 with his own practice. He habilitated in the following year 1870. 1879 he received an extraordinary, 1900 an ordinary honorary professor at the University of Berlin. Since 1907, he devoted himself exclusively to his medical history work on the history of ophthalmology, published in the wider context of the Handbook of Ophthalmology from 1899 to 1912 in the first edition.

After Hirschberg Hirschberg test is named, a method for identifying a manifest strabismus.

Works

  • The optics of the ancient Greeks Journal of psychology and physiology of the sense organs, the 16th band. JA Barth Verlag, Leipzig 1898. Http://edocs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2007/9168/ see also
  • Experiences and memories Vol 1: From young days, 1923 ( more not published )
  • History of Ophthalmology, 1899 - 1912
  • Dictionary of Ophthalmology, 1887
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