Ernst Wölfflin
Ernst Wölfflin (born July 22, 1873 in Winterthur , † January 14, 1960 in Basel ) was a Swiss ophthalmologist .
Life
The Reformed baptized Ernst Wölfflin, son of the classical philologist Eduard Wölfflin and his wife Bertha nee Troll, younger brother of the art historian Heinrich Wölfflin , turned to the study of medicine at the universities of Basel , Lausanne and Munich after acquiring the federal Matura , in 1899 his doctorate as Dr. med. in Basel.
Ernst Wölfflin held following medical assistant positions at the University Eye Hospital in Erlangen and Munich and at the Department of Ophthalmology, Duke Carl Theodor in Munich district Maxvorstadt . 1904 habilitated himself as a lecturer for the subject of ophthalmology at the University of Basel, in 1920 he was appointed Associate Professor transported. Wölfflin, who was awarded an honorary citizen of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, set his research focus on the areas of color and light sense disorders.
Publications
- The influence of the high mountains on surgical tuberculosis with special consideration of the Engadine, dissertation, G. Krebs, Basel, 1899
- The influence of age on the sense of light in the dark-adapted eye, in: Albrecht von Graefes Archiv für Ophthalmologie, v61 n3, J. Springer, Berlin, 1905, pp. 524-560.
- About dark adaptation of foveal and parafoveal parts of the retina, in: Albrecht von Graefes Archiv für Ophthalmologie, v76 n3, J. Springer, Berlin, 1910, pp. 464–477.
- Tables with cover colors to demonstrate relative red- and green-sightedness, Thieme, Leipzig, 1926
- On anesthesia in the Middle Ages, Georg Thieme, Leipzig, 1942
- About ophthalmic images from antiquity, Schwabe, Basel, 1945
- Events from the last years of WC Röntgen's life , in: Advances in the field of X-rays and nuclear medicine, v72 n11, Stuttgart, Thieme, 1949, pp. 614–618.
literature
- Gerhard Lüdtke (Hrsg.), Werner Schuder (Hrsg.), Joseph Kürschner (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1928/29. 3rd edition, De Gruyter, Berlin 1929, ISBN 3-1110-7168-5 , Sp. 2712.
- Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 10. KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-23163-6 , page 556.
- Dietrich von Engelhardt (ed.): Biographical encyclopedia of German-speaking doctors. Volume 2: R - Z. , p. 689, Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11462-1 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolfflin, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss ophthalmologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Winterthur |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 1960 |
| Place of death | Basel |