Heinrich Harms (ophthalmologist)
Heinrich Harms (born February 5, 1908 in Stralsund ; † November 26, 2003 there ) was a German ophthalmologist .
Life
Heinrich Harms, scion of a Stralsund physicians family, the father was an ophthalmologist, and nephew of 1,915 fallen, unscheduled Tubingen professor Clemens Harms (first described the essential iris atrophy ), took after high school , a study of medicine at the universities of Tübingen , where he a member of the connection Saxonia in Munich , Bern , Berlin and Rostock , which he obtained in Rostock in 1932 with his doctorate as Dr. med. completed. As a result, he held assistant positions at the eye clinics of the University of Breslau and Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , from 1934 with Walther Löhlein in Berlin, where he worked until 1949 , interrupted by a two-year assignment as a troop doctor in the war hospital in Krakow . Heinrich Harms completed his habilitation in 1937 with a thesis on the development of squint sight and immediately afterwards took up a position as senior physician with Hans Karl Müller at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1952 Harms followed Wolfgang Stock 's call to the chair for ophthalmology , combined with the management of the eye clinic, at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen. He retired in 1976.
Heinrich Harms introduced microscopic surgery to ophthalmology and dealt in particular with sensory disorders in strabismus , as well as research into the causes of glaucoma . He developed the so-called tangent table (also: Harmswand ) to measure squint angles in different viewing directions and to create motility analyzes of eye movements in free space.
Honors
- Theodor Axenfeld Prize
- Elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany (1982)
- Honorary memberships
- Instituto Barraquer de America
- International Perimetric Society
- Greek Ophthalmic Society
- German Ophthalmological Society
Fonts
- with Günter Mackensen: Eye operations under the microscope: A field report, Georg Thieme Verlag , Stuttgart 1966.
- with Reinhard Dannheim: Glaucoma operations with an open chamber angle: comparative study by a research group of the German Ophthalmological Society, Springer-Verlag , Berlin Heidelberg 1987.
Individual evidence
- ^ Association of Old Lüneburgers and Saxony: Directory of addresses , 1969, p. 19
- ↑ Registration of Heinrich Harms in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ↑ Member entry of Heinrich Harms at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 12, 2012.
- ↑ List of honorary members of the German Ophthalmological Society on the website DOG German Ophthalmological Society - the scientific society of ophthalmologists
Web links
- Page no longer available , search in web archives: Obituary in the Ophthalmologische Nachrichten of December 16, 2003
- Obituary ( memento from July 31, 2007 in the web archive archive.today ) in the Tübinger Universitätsnachrichten from March 5, 2004
- Obituary for Prof. Dr. med. emeritus Heinrich Harms, b. February 5, 1908, d. November 26, 2003, in: Klinisches monthly ophthalmology 2004; 221 (2): 131-132, doi : 10.1055 / s-2003-812581 .
- Literature by and about Heinrich Harms in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Harms, Heinrich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ophthalmologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1908 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Stralsund |
DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 2003 |
Place of death | Stralsund |