Carl August Hegner

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Carl August Hegner (also Karl August Hegner , born February 6, 1880 in Lachen SZ ; † August 23, 1964 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss ophthalmologist and founder of the Swiss Aid Committee for Starving Peoples.

Life

Carl August Hegner-Saurer (1880–1964), ophthalmologist. From 1919 to 1950 he was chief physician at the cantonal eye clinic in Lucerne. Founder of the Swiss Aid Committee for Starving Peoples. Family Grabfeld 2 in the Friedental cemetery, City of Lucerne
Family grave in the Friedental cemetery

Carl August Hegner attended the Einsiedeln Abbey School and from 1901 studied medicine at the University of Zurich and at the universities in Munich , Kiel and Berlin . With the dissertation Experimental contribution to the question of nerve grafting following a clinical observation of intramediastinal recurrent transection by pistol shot , he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD.

In 1909 he became a private lecturer at the University of Jena and in 1916 he was appointed extraordinary professor of ophthalmology. From 1919 to 1950 he was chief physician at the cantonal eye clinic in Lucerne. He died on August 23, 1964 in Lucerne and was buried in the Friedental cemetery.

After the First World War , Hegner founded the Swiss Aid Committee for Starving Peoples, which fed several thousand needy people with soup kitchens in Innsbruck , Salzburg and Vienna . In Innsbruck alone, up to 4,600 servings were served per day. For this merit he was made honorary citizen of the city of Innsbruck in 1922 and in 1966 Hegnerstrasse in the Reichenau district was named after him.

In 1912 he married Nelly Saurer (1889-1958), a daughter of Adolph Saurer . His son Hansjörg Hegner succeeded him as chief physician at the Lucerne Eye Clinic.

Publications

  • To distribute the surmountable height errors in the field of vision . Habilitation thesis, Jena 1912.
  • Clinical studies on the prognosis of intrabulbar lens dislocations. In: Contributions to ophthalmology 9, 707 (1915)
  • About the perspective of one- and two-eyed visual act. In: Carl Mellinger (Ed.): University Eye Clinic and Ophthalmic Hospital Basel 1864-1914: To commemorate their 50th anniversary. Basel 1915, pp. 140-148.
  • Refraction, visual acuity, accommodation and refractive anomalies of the eye. In: Emil Abderhalden (Ed.): Methods for examining the sense organs. Sense of light and eye. First half. Handbook of biological working methods part 5, volume 6. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1924.
  • Floor plan of the refraction and glasses theory for students and doctors. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin 1927.
  • A Swiss Indian apostle, P. Balthasar Feusi, SJ Luzern 1941.

literature

  • Hegner (Carl) August in the matriculation edition of the University of Zurich
  • Monika Fritz: The last honorary citizen of our city. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Carl August Hegner in memory. In: Official Journal of the State Capital Innsbruck , No. 9, September 1964, pp. 1–2. ( Digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Isaak Schipper: Lucerne Eye Clinic 1907–2007. In: Swiss Ophthalmological Society (ed.): 100 years of SOG and the development of Swiss ophthalmology. Horw 2007, pp. 60-62. ( PDF; 451 MB ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ))
  2. ^ Help for the Swiss soup kitchens in Austria. In: Liechtensteiner Volksblatt , No. 88, November 4, 1922, p. 2. ( PDF; 332 kB )
  3. ↑ Honorary Citizen Univ.-Prof. Dr. Karl August Hegner, 80 years old! In: Official Journal of the State Capital Innsbruck , No. 2, February 1960, p. 1. ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ New streets in Reichenau and Neuarzl. In: Official Journal of the State Capital Innsbruck , No. 8, August 1966, pp. 1–2. ( Digitized version )
  5. ↑ Mario König :  Saurer. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 467 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Hegner, Carl August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hegner, Karl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ophthalmologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Laughter SZ
DATE OF DEATH 23rd August 1964
Place of death Lucerne