Adolf Jess

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Grave of Adolf Jess in the main cemetery in Mainz

Adolf Wilhelm Karl Theodor Jess (born March 7, 1883 in Bordesholm , † October 23, 1977 in Wiesbaden ) was a German ophthalmologist .

Life

Adolf Jess was born on March 7, 1883 in Bordesholm as the son of Justice Councilor Theodor Jess and Marie nee Hall. He devoted himself to the High School a study of medicine at the universities of Marburg , Berlin and Göttingen , where he a member of the connection Lunaburgia was and 1908. Dr. med. received his doctorate .

As a result, after serving as an assistant in 1913, he accepted a position as a private lecturer in ophthalmology at the University of Giessen , which he filled until 1918. At the same time he served in the German Army during the First World War . In 1918 Jess was given an adjunct professorship in ophthalmology before his habilitation in 1919 . In 1924 he took over the chair of ophthalmology and the management of the university eye clinic as the successor to the retired Adolf Vossius . To this end, Adolf Jess was appointed rector between 1932 and 1933 .

In 1935, as the successor to emeritus Ernst Hertel, he was appointed professor of ophthalmology at the Medical Faculty of Leipzig University as well as the management of the ophthalmological institute. Jess, who joined the NSDAP on September 1, 1933 (membership number 1,793,064), belonged to the NS-Ärztebund as well as the SS (membership number 265,163). In 1938 he was appointed Hauptsturmführer .

After Jess was relieved of his functions in Leipzig at the end of World War II , he accepted the chair for ophthalmology at the re-established Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz in 1946 . For this he was entrusted with the management of the eye clinic. He also held the position of Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in 1952 . Adolf Jess, a member of the German Ophthalmological Society , of which he was made an honorary member in 1973, retired in 1957.

Adolf Jess resulted in ophthalmology new surgical techniques and reached for the exploration of the dermis to the X-rays back.

Publications

  • Contributions to the knowledge of the chemistry of the normal and the pathologically modified lens of the eye, Munich, 1913
  • Ophthalmological war experience, Halle, 1918
  • The history of ophthalmology and its position in the context of general medicine: Academic speech given at the annual celebration of the Hessian Ludwig University on July 1, 1933, Giessen, 1933

literature

  • Sabine Fahrenbach, Peter Wiedemann: Ophthalmology in Leipzig: from the "sanatorium for poor eye patients" to the modern university clinic, p. 133, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 1996
  • Brockhaus Encyclopedia in Twenty Volumes, Volume 9, 17th Edition, p. 442, 1970
  • Clinical monthly sheets for ophthalmology, Volume 172, p. 402, 1978
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Footnotes

  1. ^ Association of Old Lüneburgers and Saxony: Directory of addresses , 1969, p. 4
  2. ↑ History of the day. College news. In: Clinical weekly. 3rd year. No. 14 April 1, 1924, p. 608, online ( Memento from January 28, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ).
  3. ↑ Honorary Members. German Ophthalmological Society , accessed on May 10, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Jess, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jess, Adolf Wilhelm Karl Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Bordesholm
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1977
Place of death Wiesbaden