Julius Hirschberg

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Julius Hirschberg (1843–1925)
Memorial plaque on the house, Reinhardtstrasse 34, in Berlin-Mitte

Julius Hirschberg (born September 18, 1843 in Potsdam , † February 17, 1925 in Berlin ) was a German ophthalmologist , university professor and medical historian .

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Julius Hirschberg studied in Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1866 and his license to practice medicine in 1867. From 1868 he worked as an ophthalmologist at the Albrecht von Graefes Clinic and opened his own practice in 1869. He completed his habilitation in the following year 1870. In 1879 he received an extraordinary and in 1900 a full honorary professorship at the University of Berlin .

At the age of 49 he went on a trip around the world (August 1892 to January 1893), which took him once "Around the Earth" in 171 days and which he describes in his book published in 1894. His descriptions of Japan , Ceylon and India are particularly detailed .

From 1907 he devoted himself exclusively to his medical-historical work on the history of ophthalmology , the first edition of which appeared in the larger context of the Handbook of Ophthalmology from 1899 to 1912.

The Hirschberg test is named after Hirschberg , a procedure for identifying a manifest squint . Hirschberg also performed the first published magnet extraction of metallic foreign bodies from the eye.

The German-speaking Society for the History of Ophthalmology was named in his honor.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Optics of the Ancient Greeks Journal of Psychology and Physiology of the Sensory Organs, Volume 16. JA Barth Verlag, Leipzig 1898. see also http://edocs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2007/9168/
  • Experiences and memories Vol. 1: From young days, 1923 (no more published)
  • History of ophthalmology. I – X (= Handbook of Ophthalmology , 2nd Edition, Vol. 12–15). Leipzig 1899-1918; Reprint (in three volumes) Hildesheim and New York 1977.
  • Dictionary of Ophthalmology , 1887.
  • with Julius Lippert (transl.): The ophthalmology of Ibn Sina . Leipzig 1902; Reprinted in: Fuat Sezgin (Ed.): Studies on Ibn Sīnā (d. 1037) and his medical works. 4 volumes. Frankfurt am Main 1996 (= Publications of the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science. Ed. Von Fuat Sezgin, Volume 10-13: Islamic Medicine. ) Volume 2, pp. 161-354.

literature

  • Wilhelm Katner:  Hirschberg, Julius. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 221 ( digitized version ).
  • HM Koelbing: Julius Hirschberg (1843–1925) as an ophthalmologist and medical historian. In: Clinical monthly sheets for ophthalmology. 168th vol., No. 1, January 1976, pp. 103-108.
  • Julius Pagel : Hirschberg, Julius . In: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Berlin / Vienna 1901, Col. 743-745.
  • Jens Martin Rohrbach: Julius Hirschberg as a traveler through the world and time. In: Clinical monthly sheets for ophthalmology. 232. Vol., 2015, pp. 1413–1421.
  • C. Snyder: Julius Hirschberg, the neglected historian of ophthalmology. In: American Journal of Ophthalmology. Volume 91, No. 5, 1981, pp. 664-676.

Web links

Commons : Julius Hirschberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Julius Hirschberg  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hirschberg, J. "To the earth - a travel description", Leipzig 1894, published by Georg Thieme , book at gutenberg.org
  2. ↑ Julius Hirschberg: The magnet operation in ophthalmology. Retrieved August 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hirschberg, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, medical historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1925
Place of death Berlin