Erich Weigelin

Erich Weigelin (born December 18, 1916 in Tübingen , † March 17, 2010 in Warstein ) was a German ophthalmologist and university professor.

Life

After graduating from high school in Stuttgart (1935) and doing labor , Weigelin began to study medicine at the Eberhard Karls University . In 1936 he became active in the Corps Franconia Tübingen . As an inactive , he moved to the University of Rostock , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the University of Lausanne . In 1940 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. Called up for the army (Wehrmacht) , he was deployed from 1941 to 1945 in military hospitals in Germany, Russia and Norway. In 1943 he came in Smolensk on Hans Karl Mueller , who in the 4th Army (Wehrmacht) conducted the largest German Ophthalmological clinic with 600 beds. Under his influence, Erich Weigelin decided in 1946 not to succeed his father in the Stuttgart Eye Clinic. Rather, he followed Müller's invitation to work as an assistant at the eye clinic at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . There he completed his habilitation in 1950. In 1953 he and his boss founded the Clinical Institute for Experimental Medicine at the Bonn Eye Clinic. In 1956 he was appointed associate professor and in 1964 he was appointed associate professor and director of the institute. He received a chair in 1966 and retired in 1982 .

Works

with André Lobstein: Ophthalom Dynamometry . S. Karger, Basel 1962.

Web links

• Literature by and about Erich Weigelin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary for Professor Erich Weigelin (Thieme)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chronicle of the academic year 2009/2010 (PDF; 4.3 MB), ed. from the University of Bonn , Bonn 2011, p. 9.
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 39/1045
3. ↑ See the entry of Erich Weigelin's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
4. ↑ Dissertation: On the malignant degeneration of a cyst of the iris stroma .
5. ↑ Habilitation thesis: On the application and assessment of retinal artery pressure measurement .