Hermann Wilbrand

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Hermann Wilbrand (born May 22, 1851 in Gießen ; † September 17, 1935 in Hamburg ) was a German neuro- ophthalmologist . His grandfather was Johann Bernhard Wilbrand (1779–1846), his father Franz Joseph Julius Wilbrand (1811–1894).

Wilbrand studied in Giessen and Strasbourg, where he received his doctorate in 1875. He was assistant to Ludwig Laqueur (1839–1909) in Strasbourg and to Carl Friedrich Richard Förster (1825–1902) in Breslau .

In 1886 he became a member of the Leopoldina . In 1905 he became head of the ophthalmological department of the general hospital in Hamburg and in 1919 a full professor.

Fonts

  • Soul blindness as a hereditary phenomenon and its relationship to homonymous hemianopsia, alexia and agraphia . Wiesbaden 1886.
  • The hemianopic visual field shapes and the optical perception center . Wiesbaden, 1890.
  • With Alfred Saenger (1860–1921): About visual disturbances in functional nerve disorders . Leipzig 1892.
  • With Staelin: The expansion of the field of vision . Wiesbaden 1896.
  • With Staelin: About the eye diseases in the early period of syphilis . Hamburg and Leipzig, 1897.
  • Hermann Wilbrand and Alfred Saenger [eds.]: The neurology of the eye: a manual for neurologists and ophthalmologists . Wiesbaden, published by JF Bergmann, 9 volumes. 1900-1922.
  • With Carl Behr (1876–1943): The theory of seeing . Wiesbaden 1913.
  • The fiber course through the chiasm and the intracranial optic nerves . Berlin 1929.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Member entry of Hermann Wilbrand (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 26, 2016.