Oskar Fehr

Oskar Fehr ( born October 9, 1871 in Braunschweig, † August 1, 1959 in London ) was a German ophthalmologist Jewish descent. He was regarded as world-renowned eye surgeon. Research focused on the Schwimmbadkonjunktivitis, retinal detachments and ocular tumors. After Oskar Fehr is a form of corneal dystrophy, the Fehr syndrome named.

Biography

Oskar Fehr came to Brunswick in a Jewish family to the world. He studied at the universities of Heidelberg, Berlin and Kiel medicine. In 1897 he received his doctorate. From then on he worked until 1906 as an assistant to Julius Hirschberg. Since 1907 he was chief physician of the ophthalmic division of the Virchow -Klinikum. 1919 Fehr was appointed professor. He ran the way a private practice in the western part of the city.

1934 Oskar Fehr was denied in the course of discrimination against Jewish academics access to his clinic. He worked in his practice even further to 1938. Then Jewish doctors were forbidden by the fourth amendment to the Reich Citizenship Law, the treatment of non-Jews and the approval is withdrawn ( they now regarded only as a " medical practitioner "). In 1939, he finally emigrated with his family to Britain. Here he had to retake exams before he again was able to open a practice in 1943. In 1947 he took on British citizenship. After a second heart attack, he finished 1955 with more than 80 years, forced to be his working life. Oskar Fehr died in 1959 in London.

Writings (selection )

  • The use of electricity in ophthalmology. In: Handbook of the entire medical application of electricity. Leipzig 1911.
  • The balneotherapy and climate therapy of diseases of the eye. In: Handbook of Balneology, Climatology and medical balneography. Leipzig 1926.
  • The gonorrheal diseases of the eye. In: Handbook of skin and venereal diseases. Springer, Berlin, 1930.

Swell

  • A. Jokl: The life of Oscar Fehr. American Journal of Ophthalmology, New York 1962, 54:1011-1019.
  • M. Amm, K. Holubar: A search that began in Vienna: The Berlin Jewish ophthalmologist Oskar Fehr ( 1871-1959 ). Wiener clinical Wochenschrift (1999) 111 (12 ) :488 - 491st
  • Physician (19th century)
  • Physician ( 20th century )
  • Ophthalmologist
  • University teachers ( Humboldt -Universität zu Berlin)
  • Emigrant from the German Empire at the time of National Socialism
  • German
  • Person (Braunschweig)
  • Born in 1871
  • Died in 1959
  • Man
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