Christian Georg Theodor Ruete

Christian Georg Theodor Ruete. Graphic by Adolf Neumann.

Christian Georg Theodor Ruete (born May 2, 1810 in Scharmbeck , † June 23, 1867 in Leipzig ) was a German ophthalmologist and university professor.

Career

Ruete attended the cathedral school in Verden , studied from 1829 to 1833 in Göttingen and then worked as a lecturer at the university there and as an assistant to Karl Gustav Himly . In 1841 he became an associate professor and in 1847 a full professor.

In 1852 he was appointed as the first full professor of ophthalmology at the University of Leipzig and at the same time occupied the first full professorship for ophthalmology in Germany. At the same time he was director of the ophthalmological institution in Leipzig. In the academic year 1863/64 he was the rector of the university .

In 1865 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

He died in 1867 of complications from stroke flu.

The "Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Doctors of All Times and Nations" writes about his teaching and research:

“Ruete, who is very much appreciated by his students because of his clear and attractive lecture, has focused his scientific and academic work on ophthalmology from the start, and in Göttingen also on general pathology and therapy, and especially on drug theory. He is one of the founders of the reform of ophthalmology. He stirs eyes mirroring the inverted image and the invention of a new Ophthalmotrops ago. He first needed the word ' clarity '. "

literature

August Rothmund : Ruete, Christian Georg Theodor . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 38 f.
Obituary " Christian Georg Theodor Ruete " in: Illustrirte Zeitung , Vol. 49 (1867), p. 39.

Web links

Short biography on the website of the Leipzig University Hospital
Overview of the courses held by Christian Georg Theodor Ruete at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1852 to summer semester 1867)
Christian Georg Theodor Ruete in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig

Individual evidence

↑ Member entry by Christian Georg Theodor Ruete at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 23, 2016.
↑ Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. 3rd, unchanged. (fotomechan.) Edition, Volume 4 (Maack – Salzmann), Munich: Urban & Schwarzenberg 1962, p. 918. (Spelling modernized, abbreviations written out)

personal data
SURNAME	Ruete, Christian Georg Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German ophthalmologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 2, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH	Scharmbeck
DATE OF DEATH	June 23, 1867
Place of death	Leipzig

[1] Member entry by Christian Georg Theodor Ruete at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 23, 2016.

[2] Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. 3rd, unchanged. (fotomechan.) Edition, Volume 4 (Maack – Salzmann), Munich: Urban & Schwarzenberg 1962, p. 918. (Spelling modernized, abbreviations written out)