Theodor Leber

Theodor Carl Gustav of liver (* February 29, 1840 in Karlsruhe, † April 17, 1917 ) was a German ophthalmologist. Today, Alcon Retina Fellowship for the pharmacological and pharmakophysiologischen research in ophthalmology was originally called " Theodor Leber Scholarship".

Life

Liver was the son of Karlsruhe professor of linguistics. Originally, he had planned to study chemistry, but the well-known Professor Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen advised him to study medicine, because there were too many chemists at this time. In Heidelberg he was a pupil of Hermann Helmholtz, where he also earned his doctorate in 1862 and then worked as an assistant to Herman Jacob Knapp at the Eye Clinic of the University of Heidelberg one year.

After liver went to Vienna to study physiology under Carl Ludwig. But he soon turned back ophthalmology and became assistant physician of Albrecht Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst von Graefe in Berlin for the years 1867 to 1870 for some time., He worked in Paris. In 1869 he completed his habilitation in Berlin. He became in 1871 associate professor of ophthalmology and director at the Eye Clinic of the Georg -August- University of Göttingen and in 1890 he was given the chairmanship and the Direktoriat the eye clinic in Heidelberg, where he remained until 1910 the end of his creative life.

Theodore of liver was buried in Heidelberg Cemetery Mountain. The tomb is adorned by a pillar liable obelisk of gray granite. Here lie next to liver and his second wife Ottilie liver, the daughter of Otto Mejer, and another member of the family.

Liver was co- publisher and managing editor of Albrecht von Graefe Archives of Ophthalmology.

After liver Leber optic atrophy was named, a disease of the optic nerve, and Leber's Congenital Amaurosis (LCA ).

His nephew was the Tropenophthalmologe Alfred liver.

Works

  • Anatomical studies of the blood vessels of the human eye. Memorandum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna, 1865.
  • Studies on the caries of the teeth. with rotting stone. Berlin, 1867.
  • Studies on the change of liquid in the eye. Albrecht von Graefe's Archive of Ophthalmology, 19 (1873 ), No. 2, pp. 87-185 ( http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01720618 ).
  • About the diseases of the eye in diabetes mellitus. Albrecht von Graefe's Archive of Ophthalmology, 21 (1875 ), No. 3, pp. 206-337 ( http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01695031 ).
  • The circulatory and nutritional conditions of the eye. in Graefe - Saemisch: Manual of total Ophthalmology, 1876.
  • The diseases of the retina and the optic nerve. in Graefe - Saemisch: Manual of the entire ophthalmology, volume 3 and 4; Leipzig, 1877; 2nd edition, 1915-1916.
  • The origin of the inflammation and the effect of anti -causing harmful effects. in Graefe - Saemisch: Manual of total Ophthalmology, volume, 4th Leipzig, 1891.
  • About retinitis pigmentosa and congenital amaurosis. Albrecht von Graefe's Arch Ophthal. 15:. 1-25, 1869 ( Leber Congenital Amaurosis Here is first described )
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