Otto Schirmer (ophthalmologist)

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Otto Wilhelm August Schirmer (born December 13, 1864 in Greifswald , † May 6, 1917 in New York ) was a German ophthalmologist and university professor .

After finishing school in Greifswald, Schirmer studied at the Universities of Greifswald , Munich and Freiburg . In 1887 he was with the work Experimental study on pure Linsencontusionen in Greifswald doctorate and his habilitation in 1889 in Göttingen at Theodor liver . Here he also joined the Georgia-Augusta Student Choral Society and was made an honorary member just a year later. In the following years Schirmer worked in Halle and Königsberg before he returned to Greifswald in 1893.

There he took over the chair for ophthalmology from his father Rudolf Schirmer in 1896 . In 1907 he was appointed professor in Kiel , but moved to the University of Strasbourg in the same year . In 1909 he resigned from his teaching post in Strasbourg. Schirmer emigrated to the USA and settled in New York. Little is known about the reasons for his emigration. According to contemporary medical historians, Schirmer resigned “not of his own accord” ( Isidor Fischer ). It is said to have been a "tragic fall, probably not through his own fault" ( Julius Hirschberg ).

In New York he worked in several hospitals, including the Herman Knapp Memorial Eye Hospital .

The Schirmer test is named after him.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Stahnisch, Ulrich Schönherr, Antonio Bergua (eds.): Albert Neisser's (1855–1916) "Stereoscopischer medicinischer Atlas": an extraordinary photographic collection from the field of ophthalmology. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2006, ISBN 3-8260-3012-5 .
  2. ↑ Carl Baustaedt: federal history of the Blue singer. Göttingen 1954, p. 252.
  3. ↑ Isidor Fischer : Biographical Lexicon of the Outstanding Doctors of the Last Fifty Years. 2 volumes. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin 1932/1933.
  4. ^ Julius Hirschberg : History of ophthalmology IX and X. The reform of ophthalmology. In: Theodor Axenfeld, Anton Elsching (Hrsg.): Handbook of the entire ophthalmology. Volume 15, Springer, Berlin 1918.
  5. ↑ O. Schirmer: Studies on the physiology and pathology of tear secretion and drainage. In: Graefes Arch Ophthalmol. Volume 56, No. 2, 1903, pp. 197-291. doi: 10.1007 / BF01946264
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SURNAME Schirmer, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schirmer, Otto Wilhelm August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1917
Place of death new York