Ernst Hertel

Ernst Hertel (also Ernst Härtel ; born March 19, 1870 in Kösen , † March 10, 1943 in Leipzig ) was a German ophthalmologist.

Hertel received his doctorate in 1895 in Jena to the Dr. med. ; also in Jena he acquired the Venia legendi in 1898 . In 1910 he was appointed to the chair of ophthalmology at the University of Strasbourg as the successor to Jakob Stilling (1842–1915) , but had to leave the city after the First World War . First, he received a call to Berlin, but then went in 1920 to the University of Leipzig , where he remained until his retirement remained 1935th In 1929 Hertel was elected to the Leopoldina . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

A method for determining the extent of an exophthalmos is named after Hertel , the exophthalmometry according to Hertel , as well as the Stilling-Hertel color tables ( pseudoisochromatic tables ) for testing if color ametropia is suspected .

Sources and References

literature

• A. Wagenmann: Ernst Hertel . In: Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology . tape 145 , no. 5 , April 1, 1943, pp. 511-513 , doi : 10.1007 / BF01856797 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Hertel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ernst Hertel in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History of the day . In: Clinical weekly . tape 9 , no. 13 , March 1, 1930, p. 624 , doi : 10.1007 / BF01735142 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ernst Hertel: Relationship of acromegaly to eye diseases . In: Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology . tape 41 , no. 1 , April 1, 1895, p. 187-214 , doi : 10.1007 / BF01694440 .
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Jung-Stilling research
4. ↑ Member entry by Ernst Hertel at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 1, 2013.