Georg Levinsohn

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Georg Levinsohn (* 1867 in Lyck , East Prussia ; † 1935 in Berlin ) was a German ophthalmologist .

He studied medicine at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . There doctorate he in 1893 to Dr. med. Appointed professor in 1913 , he dealt particularly with the development of myopia and the issue of schools for the visually impaired. By 1930 he wrote treatises on the relationship between the brain and teeth and the eyes, on glaucoma and congestive papilla as well as on surgical interventions (strabismus surgery, cataract surgery).

literature

  • S. Kaznelson (Ed.): Jews in the German Cultural Sector , Berlin 1962
  • Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century. Askania, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. Dissertation: Casuistic contribution to the congestive papilla in brain tumors .