Carl von Heß (physician)

Carl Ludwig Adolf Heß , from 1912 Ritter von Heß , (* March 7, 1863 in Mainz , † June 28, 1923 in Possenhofen ) was a German ophthalmologist in Marburg, Würzburg and Munich.

Life

As the son of the Mainz ophthalmologist Wilhelm Heß, Carl Heß studied medicine at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg , the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . On May 25 and 26, 1886, he was approved as a doctor in Heidelberg and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. He completed his specialist training as an ophthalmologist with Hubert Sattler (Leipzig), Ewald Hering (Prague) and Heinrich Leopold Schoeler (Berlin). He completed his habilitation in 1891 at the Leipzig ophthalmological institution. The University of Leipzig appointed him an associate professor on December 9, 1895 .

The Philipps University of Marburg appointed him in 1896 as full professor and director of the eye clinic. The medical faculty elected him dean in 1900 . On August 1, 1900, he changed to the chair of Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg as the successor to Julius von Michel . In this capacity, Hess became a Privy Councilor in 1907 and received the Cross of Honor of the Order of Merit from Saint Michael in 1910 . Prince Regent Ludwig III thanked him for rejecting calls to Strasbourg, Vienna, Heidelberg and Berlin . 1912 by being awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown . Associated with this was the elevation to the personal nobility and he was allowed to call himself "Ritter von Hess" after being entered in the nobility register . In the same year, Heß moved to the Munich chair. The color perception was life at the center of his research. He died of pernicious anemia . He found his final resting place in the forest cemetery (Munich) . With his student Karl Wessely , he was considered the most important ophthalmologist in Germany.

Fonts

• Comparative Physiology of the Sense of Sight. Gustav Fischer, Jena 1912 ( digitized version ).
• The development of the sense of light and color in the animal series. JF Bergmann, Wiesbaden 1914 ( Biodiversity Heritage Library ).
• Alfred Graefe and Theodor Saemisch - Handbook of the entire ophthalmology. Vol. 15, part 1, 1918.

Scientific honors

• Graefe Medal (1900, Graefe Prize 1896–1898)
• Dr. phil. hc of the University of Göttingen (May 21, 1917)

literature

• Dietrich Trincker:  Hess, Carl von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 9 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Hess, Carl Ludwig Adolf. Hessian biography. (As of June 28, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Carl Ritter von Hess. In: House of Bavarian History .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: On a case of multiple sclerosis of the central nervous system .
2. ^ Hess, Carl Ludwig Adolf. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
3. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1914, p. 411.
4. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1914, p. 27.
5. ↑ Carl von Heß (WürzburgWiki)