Elfriede Aulhorn

Elfriede Aulhorn (born January 8, 1923 in Hanover ; † March 4, 1991 in Tübingen , née Elfriede Andreae ) was the first woman to hold a chair at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . It has gained worldwide recognition with the development of new methods of visual field examination for the study of pathophysiology .

Career

After graduating from high school in Hanover and a year-long labor service , she began studying medicine in Freiburg. After two semesters she was drafted into the medical service during the Second World War , most recently as a medical sergeant in a Hamburg air raid shelter. While continuing her studies in Göttingen , she married the physiologist Otfried Aulhorn in 1947 and had a daughter with him. After the state examination, she did her doctorate summa cum laude on the subject of fixation width and fixation frequency when reading directed contours and completed her habilitation in Tübingen in 1961 with her thesis on the relationship between the sense of light and visual acuity . In 1985 she was elected a member of the Leopoldina Academic Academy .

She taught as a lecturer at Tübingen University, was appointed associate professor in 1963 and from 1966 headed the Department of Vision Pathology . In 1970, as a full professor of ophthalmology, she was the first woman to receive a full professorship and was also the first full professor in ophthalmology in Germany. From 1974 her chair also dealt with the subject neuro-ophthalmology .

Appreciation

In Tübingen, Elfriede-Aulhorn-Strasse in the University Hospital on Schnarrenberg is named after her.

The Neuro-ophthalmological Society e. V. awards the “Elfriede Aulhorn Prize” endowed with 4,000 euros every two years in order to promote research in the field of physiology and pathophysiology of vision and neuroophthalmology. The prize is awarded for particularly valuable work in the scientific areas mentioned, in particular for the development of new, sensory-physiological examination methods that are important for clinics and ophthalmological practice or studies to improve diagnostic or therapeutic procedures in neuro-ophthalmological diseases.

Web links

• Literature by and about Elfriede Aulhorn in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Corinna Schneider: Elfriede Aulhorn (1923-1991) ( Memento from February 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 13 kB)
2. ↑ Andrea Bachmann: Tübinger Strasse: Elfriede-Aulhorn-Strasse. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Tagblatt, January 5, 2010. 
3. ^ Elfriede-Aulhorn-Straße on TÜpedia.