Hans-Felix Piper
Hans-Felix Piper (born February 23, 1916 in Kiel ; † May 9, 2007 in Lübeck ) was a German ophthalmologist.
Life
Piper's parents were the physiologist Hans Piper and his wife Margarete, a daughter of Johann von Mikulicz . The father died in 1915 as a soldier in the First World War before his son was born. After graduating from the Kiel School of Academics , Piper served in the Reich Labor Service and in the Wehrmacht . He then studied human medicine at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel , the University of Hamburg and the University of Vienna . There doctorate he 1942 Dr. med. Back in the Wehrmacht as a troop doctor , he was seriously wounded in the German-Soviet War in 1945 . With one of the last trains before the Wehrmacht surrendered , he came to the Elmshorn hospital . In Kiel he was taken prisoner by the British .
Wilhelm Anschütz recommended ophthalmology to his nephew and referred him to the Kiel clinic under Alois Meesmann (1888–1969). Like his fallen father, Piper turned to sensory physiology , which was strongly represented in Kiel with Manfred Monjé . In 1952 he completed his habilitation. As a senior physician and professor, he stayed at the clinic for a year after the death of his boss.
On May 1, 1960, he took up his position as chief physician at the new eye clinic of the Wuppertal municipal hospitals . The Medical Academy in Lübeck entrusted him with a teaching position in 1966 and appointed him as the first professor on April 17, 1968 . From 1979 to 1981 he was dean of the medical faculty. He retired on April 1, 1984, and was succeeded by Horst Laqua . Piper outlived his wife by a year, leaving behind two daughters and two sons.
Honorary positions
- Chairman of the Medical Society Lübeck (1968–1972)
- Member of the Transport Commission of the German Ophthalmological Society
- Member of the medical history Julius Hirschberg Society
Honors
- Ernst von Bergmann plaque (1975)
- Badge of Honor from the University of Lübeck (1996)
- Honorary member of the Bielschowsky Society for Squint Research
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans-Felix Piper in the catalog of the German National Library
- G. Holland, H. Laqua: Obituary for Hans-Felix Piper (SpringerLink)
- History of the Lübeck Eye Clinic (UKSH)
- Publications (Worldcat Identities)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Habilitation thesis: About the sensory and motor functions of the eye
- ↑ Badge of Honor
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Piper, Hans-Felix |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ophthalmologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiel |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 2007 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |