Carl Wilhelm von Zehender
Carl Wilhelm von Zehender , actually: Wilhelm von Zehender (* July 1, 1819 in Bremen , † December 19, 1916 in Rostock-Warnemünde ) was a German doctor and professor of ophthalmology in the 19th century.
Carl Wilhelm came from the Zehender family in Bern . He devoted himself to studying medicine in Göttingen, Jena, Prague, Paris and Vienna. During his studies in 1842 he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in the castle cellar in Jena. From 1856 on he was a specialist doctor for Grand Duke Georg von Mecklenburg-Strelitz and at the same time published the "Correspondenzblatt für Ärzte im Großherzoglichen Mecklenburg-Strelitz" . In September 1857 he was a participant in a small meeting of the most important ophthalmologists in Germany (including Albrecht von Graefe , Ferdinand von Arlt and Franciscus Cornelis Donders ) in Heidelberg. These annually repeated meetings led to the establishment of the "Heidelberger Ophthalmologische Gesellschaft", which in 1920 became the German Ophthalmological Society . Zehender was a member of the presidium here from the beginning until 1899. From September 18, 1857 he was a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors . From 1863 on he also acted as the editor of the "Clinical Monthly Papers for Ophthalmology" which he founded. Via a professorship in Bern, he became an honorary professor at the University of Rostock in 1866. From 1869 he worked there as a full professor at the clinic and chair. There he recognized the value of the binocular dissecting magnifier of court and university mechanic Heinrich Wilhelm Christoph Westien (1856-1919) for diagnosis and surgery on the anterior segments of the eye. Zehender had him build the binocular corneal loupe or Zehender-Westien'sche double loupe, the first stereoscopic examination instrument in ophthalmology and a forerunner of the slit lamp . After his efforts to build his own eye clinic failed, he resigned there in 1889 and moved to Munich. Here he devoted himself again to the editing of the “Clinical Monthly Journal for Ophthalmology”. Together with his wife he finally moved to Warnemünde via Eutin in 1907. There he died at the age of 98 and was buried in today's landscape park "Stephan Jantzen" without a tombstone.
Honors
In 1893 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .
Web links
- Literature about Wilhelm von Zehender in the state bibliography MV
- Prof. Karl Wilhelm von Zehender on www.dog.org (German Ophthalmological Society)
- Entry on Carl Wilhelm von Zehender in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information from Gustav Willgeroth , Die Mecklenburgischen Ärzte (1929), p. 265; in other sources different: * May 21, 1819.
- ↑ Fraternity leaves . XIV., Berlin 1900, p. 282.
- ↑ Members of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors 1857
- ↑ Patent DE000000038207A : Double objective lenses with a common field of view. Registered May 24, 1886 , published January 25, 1887 , inventor: H. Westien.
- ^ Member entry by Wilhelm von Zehender at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 30, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zehender, Carl Wilhelm von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zehender, Karl Wilhelm von; Zehender, Carl Wilhelm von (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German university professor, professor of ophthalmology |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1819 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 1916 |
| Place of death | Rostock-Warnemünde |