Albert Esser

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Alexander Albert Maria Esser (born January 25, 1885 in Düsseldorf , † February 4, 1972 ibid) was a German physician , ophthalmologist and medical historian .

Life

Alexander Albert Maria Esser was a son of the Düsseldorf brewery owner and innkeeper Wilhelm Esser. The actor Peter Esser was his younger brother.

Albert Esser attended the humanistic grammar school in Düsseldorf, first studied law in Freiburg im Breisgau, then changed the course and from the following semester studied human medicine at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , the Albert- Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

In 1909 he passed the medical state examination in Heidelberg and was awarded a Dr. med. doctorate and approved in 1910 . During the First World War he served as senior physician in the reserve from 1914 to 1918 and practiced as a resident ophthalmologist in Düsseldorf from 1919 after the end of the war.

In the years 1926-1930 Albert Esser completed a Sanskrit -Studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn and the University of Cologne , on 21 June 1930 where he became Dr. phil. received his doctorate.

Albert Esser completed his habilitation in 1940 at the medical faculty of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and was later appointed as a lecturer and honorary professor for the history of medicine at the reopened Medical Academy in Düsseldorf after the end of the war on March 14, 1946 , at which he was only due to reasons of age resigned his teaching post in the summer of 1961.

He was co-editor of Sudhoff's Archive for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences and the Clinical Monthly Journal for Ophthalmology .

In 1953, Albert Esser was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in the History of Science and Medicine section .

He had been married to the ophthalmologist Hella, nee Rieth, since 1922.

A letter from him to the German classical philologist Franz Dornseiff and a letter to the classical philologist Karl Preisendanz have been preserved from his correspondence .

Fonts (selection)

  • Contribution to the statistics of puerperal thromboses and embolisms according to the material of the Heidelberg Women's Clinic from January 1, 1903 to December 31, 1908 . Dissertation, Heidelberg 1910
  • The ophthalmology of the Bhavaprakasa. I. part . Studies in the history of medicine, 19, Leipzig 1930
  • The ophthalmology of the Susruta . Studies in the history of medicine, 22, Leipzig 1934
  • The face of blindness in ancient times . 1st edition, Stuttgart 1939
  • History of the German Ophthalmological Society . Munich 1957
  • The face of blindness in ancient times. The cultural and medical historical emanations of the problem of the blind in the ancient sources . 2nd expanded edition, Leiden 1961
  • For the 400th birthday of Fabricius Hildanus. Niederbergische Contributions, 8, Fabrystudien, 1, Hilden 1961

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SURNAME Esser, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Esser, Alexander Albert Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, ophthalmologist and medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1972
Place of death Dusseldorf