Hans Karl Müller (doctor)

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Hans Karl Müller

Hans Karl Müller - actually Johannes Karl Müller (born January 30, 1899 in Würzburg , † June 27, 1977 in Bonn ) was a German ophthalmologist.

Life

1000th PP suite between Makaria and Suevia Munich

Johannes Karl Müller's grandfather was the surgeon Hermann Maas , his father Johannes Müller, an internist and secret medical council in Nuremberg. During the First World War , Hans Karl Müller served in the Royal Bavarian 1st Chevaulegers Regiment “Emperor Nicholas of Russia” . Most recently he was an infantry pilot and lieutenant. He studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University . In 1919 he became active in the Corps Suevia Munich . From 1925 to 1928, Hans Müller worked at the Physiological Institute of the Philipps University in Marburg with Rudolf Dittler , whom he admired throughout his life. With a doctoral thesis at Dittler, he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD.

Basel

Afterwards, Hans Karl Müller was assistant and senior physician at the University Eye Clinic Basel under Arthur Brückner for eight years . At first, there were works on the measurement of intraocular pressure , in which statistical methods were used for the first time to spread the measurement results and to assess the degree of significance. In doing so, Müller was way ahead of his time. Above all, Müller began doing biochemical work on the metabolism of the lens when he was an assistant in Basel . The discovery of vitamin C in aqueous humor made him internationally known . He completed his habilitation at Brückner in 1933 with a thesis on aqueous humor. This work resulted in friendships with young researchers from many European countries: with Nordmann from Strasbourg, Bietti from Italy, Franceschetti and Goldmann from Switzerland, Böck from Austria, Franois from Belgium and v. Bahr from Sweden.

Berlin

In 1936, Walther Löhlein , the most respected ophthalmologist in Germany at the time, asked Müller to come to his clinic in the Charité as a senior physician . The decision was difficult for him; because he always believed that other people were as decent as him. As a “quarter Jew” he also trusted the promises of the Prussian Ministry of Science, Education and National Education that his descent, which did not comply with the racial laws , would not hinder his academic career. For Bonn it was good that this promise was not kept. Otherwise he should have been given a professorship long ago , especially since his work in Berlin (examination methods, blood pressure measurement on the eye, neuro-ophthalmology) increased his appreciation. For almost the entire time of the Second World War , Müller served as an advisory ophthalmologist in the army (Wehrmacht) . During the German-Soviet War , he was an army doctor in charge of a field hospital in the central section of the Eastern Front . Transferred to an army group in the west, he became a British prisoner of war , from which he was released at the end of 1945.

Bonn

The Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn initially appointed Müller as acting director of their eye clinic. In 1947 he came to the chair . With the surgeon Erich von Redwitz and the internist Paul Martini , he made great contributions to the reconstruction of the Bonn University Hospital . He was particularly concerned with the new building for the university eye clinic on Venusberg , which was carried out between 1953 and 1955 after intensive preparation and planning. Between 1951 and 1954 he sacrificed three honorable appointments to Tübingen, Hamburg and Munich. Munich would not only have been an old home, but also the top of German ophthalmology . In 1953/54 he was dean of the medical faculty. At the inauguration of the new clinic in September 1955, the most famous ophthalmologists from all over the world admired the trend-setting new clinic. As early as 1953, on Müller's initiative, the Institute for Experimental Ophthalmology was founded and he headed it until 1964. When building the new clinic building, one of his main concerns was to create plenty of space for basic scientific work. This gives him the prerequisite for continuing basic ophthalmological research in Bonn, especially in his own field of work, the biochemistry of the lens . From 1956 to 1961 Müller was the medical director of the clinical institutions. When he retired in 1967 , the student body brought him a torchlight procession , which ended in a garden party. At the funeral service of the University of Bonn in 1977, Edgar Thofern , Director of the Hygiene Institute and Dean of the Medical Faculty , spoke .

family

Müller lost his first wife when he gave birth to his first daughter. The daughter later became an orthoptist and raised one of the first orthoptist schools in Germany in his clinic. Müller later married a war widow with a daughter. From this marriage two sons were born. The younger one, Dr. Gerhard Müller, lives in his father's house and is Rhenane from Bonn . Hans Karl Müller cared for his wife, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, for more than ten years .

Honors

  • Chairman of the German Ophthalmological Society (1963/64)
  • President of the XX. International Ophthalmology Congress in Munich (1966)
  • Honorary member of the Rhenish-Westphalian Ophthalmologists Association
  • Honorary member of the Société française d'ophtalmologie
  • Honorary member of the two Greek ophthalmological societies

Publications

  • The observation of depth effects in binocular movement replicas . Zschr. Sinnesphysiol. 59: 157-165 (1928).
  • About the limit values ​​of the pressure levels measured with the Schlötz tonometer in healthy eyes . Arch. Augenheilk. 104, pp. 89-101 (1931).
  • About the influence of different lengths of pre-exposure on the dark adaptation and on the error size of the threshold stimulus determination during the dark adaptation . Graefes Arch. Ophthal. 125 (1931), pp. 624-642.
  • with HJ Schultz and J. Lautsch: The standardization of the dark adaptation test . Clin. Mbl. Ophthalmology. 104: 649-663 (1940).
  • Aqueous humor and lens metabolism. 1st communication: About the causes of the methylene blue reduction capacity of the aqueous humor . Arch. Augenheilk. 108: 41-79 (1933).
  • with W. Buschke, A. Gurewitsch and F. Brühl: Vitamin C in aqueous humor and lens . Clin. Wschr. 13: 20-21 (1934).
  • with A. Brüning and H. Sohr: Ein Dynamometer . Ber. German Ophthal. Ges. 52, 434-440 (1938).
  • with H. Langguth: About the force measurement of the lifting of the upper eyelid and its clinical significance . Graefes Arch. Ophthal. 144: 234-246 (1941).
  • Treatment of war injuries to the eye in the field . Ophthal. Operationslehre, Liefer 3 (1945), 893–984.
  • Report on ophthalmological findings in typhus patients . The German military doctor 8 (1943), pp. 179-182.
  • Bonn talks . Docum. Ophthal. 10: 79-380 (1956).
  • Toxoplasmosis of the eye . Time issues ophthalmology. 300-320 (1954).
  • with Söllner, F. and Z. Vucicevic: Late results of keratoplasty . Ber. German Ophthal. Ges. 64: 142-159 (1962).
  • The partial excretion of the iris and ciliary body . Docum. Ophthal. 26: 679-697 (1969).
  • with C.-D. Wu, O. Hockwin and E. Noll: Determination of the wet and dry weight of iris, ciliary body, and choroid in man and in different animal species . Ophthal. Res. 1, 124-128 (1970).
  • Acta XX. Concilium Ophthalmologicum Germania 1966, 2 vols. Excerpta Medica Foundation. Int. Cong. Series No. 146 (1967).
  • Data processing in experimental and clinical ophthalmology . Docum. Ophthal. 27 (1969).

student

Müller's students include Otto Freusberg (Florianopolis) and Leon Gruppenmaker in Brazil, Miguel Olivares-Alarcon in Santiago de Chile, Örgen and N. Ayberk in Turkey, N. Bechrakis and Anastasios Konstas in Greece, Peter Niesel in Bern , Hiroshi in Japan Sakaue, Kazuo Iwata and Shimizu and in Amman Fuad Sayegh. Heinrich Harms in Tübingen, Gerhard Meyer-Schwickerath in Essen, Erich Weigelin in Bonn, Wolfgang Leydhecker in Würzburg, W. Best in Tübingen and Bonn, Otto-Erich Lund in Munich and Ingrid Kreissig in Tübingen took up positions in West German professorships .

literature

  • Erich Weigelin: Hans Karl Müller and the Bonn University Eye Clinic 1945–1967 . Historia Ophthalmologica internationalis 2 (1981), pp. 97-114.

Obituaries

  • E. Weigelin, Bulletins et mémoires de la Société française d'ophtalmologie 89 (1977), pp. 127-128
  • K. Shimizu, Nippon Ganka Gakkai Zasshi 81 (1977), p. 1521.
  • G. Meyer-Schwickerath, Albrecht von Graefes Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology 205 (1978), pp. 71-72.

Web links

Commons : Hans Karl Müller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ This received late recognition at the symposium on "Data Processing in Ophthalmology" on Müller's 70th birthday.
  2. ↑ After the war, his friends all over the world helped Müller to regain access to international ophthalmology more quickly than any other German clinic. Without the resentment towards the Germans that was widespread at the time, they immediately resumed friendly relations with Müller after the forced break. They donated instruments and, above all, international journals for his impoverished clinic.
  3. ↑ Müller represented the Federal Republic of Germany on its advisory board until his death.
  4. ↑ Wu was Müller's last doctoral student.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 159/1634
  2. ↑ Dissertation: About the embolism of the abdominal artery .
  3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: The reducing components of the aqueous humor .
  4. ↑ Jens Martin Rohrbach: Ophthalmology in National Socialism (2007)
  5. ↑ printed in “Die Trausnitz” No. 1/1980, pp. 3–7
  6. ↑ Jürgen Schmutter II, "Die Trausnitz" No. 1/1980, pp. 3–7
  7. ^ History of the DOG
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Hans Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Johannes Karl (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1977
Place of death Bonn