Johann Friedrich Horner

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Johann Friedrich Horner

Johann Friedrich Horner (born March 27, 1831 in Zurich ; † December 20, 1886 there ) was a Swiss ophthalmologist.

Life

Horner studied medicine at the University of Zurich from 1849 , his teachers included Karl Ewald Hasse and Ernst Hasse. In 1854 he became a member, later an honorary member, of the Corps Tigurinia . In 1854 he received his doctorate. Study trips took him to Prague, Dresden, Leipzig and Halle. In Vienna he worked for Eduard Jäger von Jaxtthal . He later became an assistant to Albrecht von Graefe and Louis-Auguste Desmarres in Paris. Horner opened a doctor's practice in Zurich in 1856. He completed his habilitation in ophthalmology. In 1862 Horner was appointed associate professor and director of the Zurich Ophthalmological Clinic. From 1873 he was full professor . In 1869 he described the Horner syndrome named after him , an eye muscle paralysis also reported by Claude Bernard . The Lausanne ophthalmologist and politician Marc Dufour (1843–1910) is one of his students . He died of a stroke at the age of 55 .

Works

  • On retinal disease in Brightii disease . 1863
  • A case of orbital periostitis and optic perineuritis . 1863
  • Retinal tumor . 1863
  • Foreign bodies in the iris . 1863
  • Carcinoma of the dura mater. Metastasis of the Mm. recti exophthalmos . 1864
  • Coloboma of the eyelid with numerous dermoid tumors . 1864
  • A minor epidemic of conjunctival diphtheritis . 1869
  • For the treatment of keratoconus . 1869
  • About a form of ptosis. In: Clinical monthly journal for ophthalmology. Volume 7, 1869, pp. 193-198
  • Tumors around the eye . 1871
  • About herpes corneae . 1871
  • Refraction changes . 1873
  • Disinfectant treatment of some corneal diseases . 1874
  • About the anatomical findings in inflammatory capsular cataract . 1874
  • Mycotic keratitis . 1874

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Friedrich Horner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 144/32
  2. Dissertation: About the curvature of the spine when standing upright .
  3. Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Horner, Johann Friedrich. 2005, p. 617.