Hugo Gasteiger

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Hugo Gasteiger
Grave in Wilmersdorf (2011)

Hugo Gasteiger (born November 26, 1899 in Murau , Upper Styria , † May 21, 1978 in West Berlin ) was an Austro-German ophthalmologist and university professor.

Life

Gasteiger was the son of the pharmacist and Reichsrat member Carl Gasteiger and the Bohemian Maria Franziska Fischer von See . He studied medicine at the University of Graz and the University of Innsbruck , where he was active in the Corps Joannea (1919) and Athesia (1921). With a dissertation on his brother Corp Richard Seefeld he was in 1929 in Innsbruck for Dr. med. PhD . In 1936 he was appointed associate professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Two years later he became the head doctor of the eye clinic at the Johannstadt City Hospital in Dresden. In 1951 he moved to the divided Berlin as a full professor , first to the Humboldt University in East Berlin and in 1957 finally to the Westend Clinic of the Free University in West Berlin . There he was in 1968 emeritus .

1959/60 Hugo Gasteiger was President of the German Ophthalmological Society. He worked on cyclodiathermy and wrote a textbook for ophthalmology in 1956 by the Walter de Gruyter publishing house , which appeared in several editions.

He was often called "ball lightning" by his students and colleagues because of his speed. He is buried with his wife in the Wilmersdorf cemetery in Berlin.

literature

  • Josef Wollensak: Prof. Dr. med. Hugo Gasteiger . Clinical monthly sheets for ophthalmology 173 (1978), p. 440 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 83/192; 6/319
  2. ↑ Dissertation: On the therapeutic use of X-rays in ophthalmology .
personal data
SURNAME Gasteiger, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German ophthalmologist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Murau , Upper Styria
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1978
Place of death West Berlin