Hermann Kuhnt
Hermann Kuhnt (born April 14, 1850 in Senftenberg ; † October 31, 1925 in Bonn ) was a German ophthalmologist and university professor in Jena, Königsberg and Bonn.
Life
Kuhnt was born the sixth of eight children in Senftenberg in the Brandenburg province . He attended school in Cottbus . He began to study medicine at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1870 he became active in the Corps Rhenania Bonn . As an inactive he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg . He wrote his doctoral thesis with Friedrich Sigmund Merkel at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Rostock . In 1874 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . Then he was assistant to the ophthalmologist Otto Becker at the eye clinic of the University of Heidelberg .
In 1880 he went to the University of Jena , which appointed him associate professor in 1881 . A year later, he was appointed full professor of ophthalmology and was director of the newly founded eye clinic. Kuhnt's plans for his own building for the university eye clinic were only implemented by his successor August Wagenmann . The new clinic was moved into on October 1, 1898. In 1886 he was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .
Kuhnt moved to the Albertus University in Königsberg in 1892 and became director of the university eye clinic there. He was the successor of Arthur von Hippel (1841-1916), who only worked there for 2 years, and Julius Jacobson (1828-1889), who from 1877 to 1889 was the only professor of a university clinic in Prussia that had been specially set up for ophthalmology. Kuhnt was rector of the Albertus University in 1906/07 .
In 1907 he finally followed the call of the familiar University of Bonn. There he bought and lived in the Villa Coblenzer Straße 89a .
meaning
As an ophthalmologist, Kuhnt and Paul Junius did pioneering work in the diagnosis of yellow spots . The terminal macular degeneration is named after both of them . The narrow spaces between the ciliary body and zonula ciliaris also bear Kuhnt's name. With Julius von Michel , Kuhnt had published the ophthalmic magazine since 1899 .
On the occasion of a conference about Kuhnt's life and work at the Lausitz University of Applied Sciences , a stele was inaugurated in Senftenberg on September 12, 2009. It is not far from Burglehnstrasse, where Kuhnt's parents' house was.
Works
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- Contributions to Surgical Ophthalmology , 1883.
- On the therapy of granular conjunctivitis , 1897.
- About the usability of the conjunctiva in practical and operative ophthalmology , 1898.
- Disc-shaped degeneration of the center of the retina , Bonn 1926.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann Kuhnt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information about Kuhnt on the homepage of the University of Jena
- Senftenberg commemorates Professor Kuhnt and inaugurates a stele , article in the Lausitzer Rundschau from September 14, 2009
- Junius Kuhnt Medal
Individual evidence
- ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 26 , 409
- ^ E. Kunz: History of the University Eye Clinic Königsberg , part 3, in: Ostpreußische Doktorfamilie Easter 1974 (memorial letter) pp. 6-10
- ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kuhnt, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ophthalmologist and scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Senftenberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 31, 1925 |
| Place of death | Bonn |