August Siegrist

August Siegrist (born May 20, 1865 in Basel , † December 13, 1947 ) was a Swiss ophthalmologist . He is the brother of the doctor Albert Siegrist .

After studying in Basel , Zurich , Bern , Lausanne and Vienna , he obtained his medical doctorate in Vienna in 1892. He then acquired further knowledge at the Bern Surgical Clinic with Emil Theodor Kocher (1841-1917), at the Lausanne Eye Clinic with Marc Dufour (1843-1910), in Bern with Ernst Pflüger (1846-1903) and in Vienna with Ernst Fuchs ( 1851-1930).

Finally , he completed his habilitation in ophthalmology in Basel in 1900. From 1903 to 1935 he was a full professor and director of the University Eye Clinic in Bern, which he played an important role in establishing.

Siegrist is best known as a pioneer in the development of the contact lens . He is credited with the first use of contact lenses, which were still blown out of glass in 1916 by the Müller brothers from Wiesbaden. Four years later, he participated in the development of the first ground contact lenses from Zeiss .

The Siegrist spots and Siegrist stripes as well as the Siegrist-Hutchinson syndrome were named after him.

The well-known ophthalmologist Hans Goldmann was Siegrist's assistant from 1924.

Works

• Contributions to the knowledge of the nature and location of the Hemicrania Ophthalmica 1894 (dissertation)
• Festschrift for the opening of the new university eye clinic in Bern in 1910
• Refraction and accommodation of the human eye: taking into account the theory of glasses ... , Berlin 1925.
• The gray old age cataract, its causes and its non-surgical treatment. Berlin & Vienna, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1928
• Scrofulous eye inflammation. Berlin and Vienna 1931.

Web links

• whonamedit.com