Heinrich Harms (ophthalmologist)

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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

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

  1. ^ Association of Old Lüneburgers and Saxony: Directory of addresses , 1969, p. 19
  2. ↑ Registration of Heinrich Harms in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ Member entry of Heinrich Harms at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 12, 2012.
  4. ↑ List of honorary members of the German Ophthalmological Society on the website DOG German Ophthalmological Society - the scientific society of ophthalmologists

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personal data
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