Eugen Schreck

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Eugen Schreck (born November 15, 1911 in Stuttgart , † May 22, 1993 in Erlangen ) was a German ophthalmologist .

Life

Schreck studied medicine at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and was awarded a Dr. med. doctorate and joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1937 . Since 1930 he was a member of the Catholic student union AV Guestfalia Tübingen . After completing his studies, he worked under Ernst Engelking at the Heidelberg University Hospital. There he completed his habilitation in 1939 and was appointed adjunct professor in 1948.

From 1951 to 1980 he was a full professor of ophthalmology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and director of the eye clinic there. In 1954 he was the first in Germany to implant an artificial eye lens in a human eye.

Schreck was editor of the specialist journal Graefes Archiv für Ophthalmologie and from 1965 to 1973 on the board of the German Ophthalmological Society .

Research and Teaching

The focus of his scientific work was on the pathological anatomy of the eye, the involvement of the eye in skin diseases and the development of sympathetic ophthalmology.

His scientific work encompassed more than 120 publications as well as the comprehensive work Differential Diagnosis in Ophthalmology .

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: The Epilepsy of Childhood
  2. ^ Wolfgang Uwe Eckart, Volker Sellin, Eike Wolgast: The University of Heidelberg in National Socialism. Springer, Berlin 2006, p. 947.
  3. ^ Complete CV index 1991, V - 233.
  4. ↑ Habilitation: On the clinic and pathological anatomy of orbital tumors
personal data
SURNAME Scare, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1993
Place of death gain