Arthur von Hippel (ophthalmologist)

Arthur von Hippel (born January 24, 1841 in Fischhausen near Pillau , East Prussia , † 1916 in Göttingen ) was a German ophthalmologist .

origin

His parents were the Königsberg judiciary Wilhelm von Hippel (1812-1860) and his wife Ida Gerlach (1816-1861). His grandfather, Hans Ludwig von Hippel (1778–1813), died as a Prussian captain during the Wars of Liberation .

Life

He attended the Kneiphöfsche Gymnasium in Königsberg and studied in Königsberg, Würzburg and Berlin . In the winter semester of 1860/61 he became a member of the Germania Königsberg fraternity . After graduating, he went to Prague, Vienna (with Ferdinand von Arlt ) and Paris for further training . In 1868 he completed his habilitation, in 1874 he became associate professor and in 1879 full professor in Giessen. In 1890 he followed a call to Königsberg at the university eye clinic there. This clinic was founded in 1873 by the ophthalmologist Julius Jacobson at the Albertus University in Königsberg as the first university eye clinic. In 1892 Hippel moved to Halle, later to Göttingen.

He demanded a high level of education from the students; so he asked them to perform an iridectomy for the exam .

“When we hear and read from A. von Hippel, we get the impression of a genuine Prussian of the best of times, who in his childhood was still influenced by Kant's idealism and humanism v. Humboldts had received its decisive influence. "

- Eberhard Kunz

family

He married Olga Magnus (1846–1900) in 1865 . The couple had three sons, including:

• Robert (1866–1951), German criminal law scholar
• Eugen (1867–1939), German ophthalmologist

Scientific work

Hippel continued the work of Julius Jacobson. He was a member of the Association for Scientific Medicine founded by Hermann von Helmholtz in 1850 and edited numerous publications - not only during the short period of his stay in Königsberg. At the Königsberg clinic he introduced intraocular pressure measurement for every (older) patient, researched color blindness and, according to Eberhard Kunz (see literature), carried out the first corneal transplants in 1891. For this he received the Albrecht von Graefe Prize in Berlin in 1891.

literature

• Wilhelm Katner:  Hippel, Artur von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 200 ( digitized version ).
• E. Kunz: History of the University Eye Clinic Königsberg . Part 2: East Prussian Medical Family, Advent 1973, pp. 10-12 and Part 3: East Prussian Medical Family, Easter 1974 (memorial letter) with many pictures of Jacobson's successors, pp. 6–10.
• E. Neumann-Redlin von Meding: Königsberg, birthplace of ophthalmology in Prussia around 1850-1875 . Königsberger Bürgerbrief No. 70 (2007) pp. 53–55
• E. Neumann-Redlin von Meding: Association for scientific medicine . Königsberger Bürgerbrief N 78 (2011) pp. 49–52