Karl Stargardt

Karl Bruno Stargardt ( born December 4, 1875 in Berlin, † April 2, 1927 in Marburg ) was a German ophthalmologist and high school teachers. Been known, he is best known as the first to describe and name giver of Stargardt's disease.

Life and work

Stargardt studied medicine in Heidelberg, Erlangen, and Berlin. He was Doctorate in 1899 from the University of Kiel. He worked as a doctor in Kiel, was senior physician at the Department of Ophthalmology. Later he moved to the Department of Ophthalmology in Strasbourg and eventually became chief physician in Bonn. As early as 1903 he habilitated. In professional circles, he gained a high reputation in 1909 with the scientific description of the later named after him juvenile macular degeneration.

In 1923, Stargardt followed the changing to the University of Breslau Alfred Bielschowsky, founder of the Institute for the Blind, at the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Marburg as well as in the management of the school for the blind. Particularly large number of medical disciplines of neurology over the core area of ophthalmology to internal medicine, his interest extended field. A few years later the ill professor at nephritis and heart failure and died 1927.

Writings (selection )

• About family, progressive degeneration in the macular area of the eye. Albrecht von Graefe's Archive of Ophthalmology, 1909, 71: 534-550.
• On the causes of the optic nerve shrinkage in tabes and progressive paralysis from Royal d. Psychiatr. and Nerve Clinic in Kiel together with Ernst Siemerling )