Albert Peters (doctor)

Albert Hans Georg Peters , also Hans Georg Albert Peters ( September 19, 1862 in Meggen (Westphalia) - May 12, 1938 in Rostock ) was a German ophthalmologist and scientist.

Life

Albert Peters was born as the son of Richard Peters , director of Steinhauser Hütte and founding member and chairman of the Association of German Engineers (VDI). He graduated from the Realgymnasium in Siegen and passed the Abitur in Soest in March 1880 as an extraneus (foreigner). After completing his high school preparation, he studied medicine at the universities of Bonn , Tübingen and Berlin from April 1881 , interrupted in 1882 by six months of military service as a one-year volunteer . In 1885 he received his doctorate from the University of Bonn with the work on the regeneration of the epithelium of the cornea . The medical state examination and license to practice medicine followed at the beginning of 1886 . As a doctor he completed the second part of his military service in 1886 and became second under Theodor Saemisch from October 1886 and first assistant from 1887 at the University Eye Clinic in Bonn. From 1888 to 1901 he worked as a resident specialist for eye diseases in Bonn, completed his habilitation in 1892, then was also a private lecturer and from 1898 an honorary professor. Peters was married to Johanna, geb. Cohen (* 1868), a daughter of the Bonn publishing house book dealer Friedrich Cohen .

In October 1901 he accepted the call as a full professor of ophthalmology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Rostock and director of the Rostock University Eye Clinic and the Eye Polyclinic, as the successor to Theodor Axenfeld , who moved to the University of Freiburg . His fields of research were the anatomy of the eye, pathology and therapy of conjunctival diseases and the investigation of layered starlings. His research results were found in more than 100 publications.

From 1902 Peters was an honorary member of the Bonn Association of Rhenish-Westphalian Ophthalmologists. On April 13, 1913, he was appointed to the Secret Medical Council. During the First World War he was a technical advisory board for ophthalmology and senior expert for the IX. Army corps and head of the eye clinic department of the Rostock reserve hospital. In the academic self-administration he was dean of the medical faculty in 1906/1907 and 1914/1915, in 1915/16 he held the office of rector of the university and in 1916/1917 he was prorector.

Peters was a member of the central executive committee and state chairman of the German People's Party in Mecklenburg-Schwerin . At the end of March 1933 he was released from his official duties and on April 1st he retired - he was considered to be "Jewish" - his wife was of Jewish origin.

See also : List of Rectors of the University of Rostock

Fonts (selection)

• On the regeneration of the epithelium of the cornea. Dissertation, Bonn 1885.
• Tetany and cataracts. A contribution to the pathology and pathological anatomy of the lens. Cohen, Bonn 1898.
• About headaches as a result of eye disorders. A contribution to the theory of asthenopia. In: Collection of informal treatises in the field of ophthalmology. Marhold, Halle a. P. 1898, ISSN  0487-1154
• The congenital defects and diseases of the eye. Cohen, Bonn 1909.
• Lymphatic circulation and glaucoma. In: Theodor Axenfeld : Textbook of Ophthalmology. Fischer, Jena 1909.
• Diseases of the eye in childhood. Cohen, Bonn 1910.
• Health care of the eye. Commonly presented. Hesse, Leipzig 1913.
• Wartime ophthalmology. Speech to celebrate February 28, 1916. Warkentien, Rostock 1916. ( Staatsbibliothek-Berlin )
• The sympathetic eye disease. In: Theodor Axenfeld; Anton Elschnig (Hrsg.): Handbook of the entire ophthalmology. Volume 6. Springer, Berlin 1919.
• The trachoma. Karger, Berlin 1935.
• The sympathetic eye disease. Literature report 1919 to October 1935. In: Treatises from ophthalmology and its border areas. Karger, Berlin 1936, ZDB -ID 510155-4

literature

• Antje Krause; Hans-Jürgen Mende; Hanseatic City of Rostock (Hrsg.): New Rostock Cemetery - Remarkable graves. Rostock 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-036945-2 , p. 63.
• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 7486 .
• Peters, Albert Hans Georg. In: Michael Buddrus ; Sigrid Fritzlar (ed.): The professors of the University of Rostock in the Third Reich. A biographical lexicon (= texts and materials on contemporary history. 16). KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-11775-6 , p. 305.
• Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present. State office of the Mecklenburg Doctors Association, Schwerin 1929, p. 292.
• Franz Neubert (Ed.): German Contemporary Lexicon. Biographical manual of contemporary German men and women. Schulze & Co., Leipzig 1905, Sp. 1083.

Web links

• Literature about Albert Peters in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Albert Peters in the Common Library Network (GBV)
• Entry on Albert Peters in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Military service as a one-year volunteer:
   4-9 / 1882 Infantry Regiment 125 in Tübingen and
   3-8 / 1886 Infantry Regiment 125 in Tübingen and Garde-Ulanen-Regiment in Berlin.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Antje Krause; Hans-Jürgen Mende; Hanseatic City of Rostock (Hrsg.): New Rostock Cemetery - Remarkable graves. See literature
3. ^ In Buddrus / Fritzlar: Die Professoren ... Peters' denomination is given as Protestant;
   in Krause / Mende: New Rostock Cemetery ... Peter's Jewish ancestors are also mentioned.
4. ↑ Commemoration in memory of Friedrich Franz II. , Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (born February 28, 1823 in Ludwigslust, † April 15, 1883 in Schwerin) as reorganizer of the University of Rostock and of his services to the development of the university.