Karl Ascher

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Karl Wolfgang Ascher (* 13. June 1887 in Prague ; † 17th July 1971 in Cincinnati (Ohio, USA)) was a Czechoslovak - American physicians . He was a private lecturer in ophthalmology . He became known u. a. through his discovery of the aqueous humor veins in 1941.

Life

He was the son of the railway chief doctor Dr. med. Leopold Ascher and his wife Camilla née Weil and were born in the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia . Karl Ascher attended grammar school in Prague-Graben until he graduated from high school in 1905 and then went to the German University of Prague to study at the medical faculty there. Ascher graduated on May 5, 1911 as Dr. med. from. He then worked at the Institute of Physiology and the eye clinic laboratory until 1912. From 1912 to 1913 he was assistant at the eye clinic at the University of Strasbourg and then until 1923 he was the first assistant at the eye clinic at the University of Prague. There he worked since the successful habilitation on June 28, 1922 in the field of ophthalmology as a private lecturer for ophthalmology. In addition to his professional activity as an ophthalmologist in a private practice, he worked between 1927 and 1939 as an eye surgeon at the Franciscan Hospital in Prague.

On March 6, 1937, Karl Ascher received an extraordinary professorship for ophthalmology at the University of Prague, from which he had to resign on January 25, 1939 for political reasons. With the formation of the German protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , he was forced to leave the country. He emigrated to the USA, where Ascher was appointed professor at the University of Cincinnati in August 1939 .

From 1947 to 1957 Karl Ascher was the director of the eye department at the Bethesda hospital.

As a physician, he was a very versatile ophthalmologist, best known for his work in the fields of physiology, pathophysiology and physiological chemistry of the eye. He was the discoverer of several new syndromes such as Ascher syndrome .

Fonts (selection)

  • From six decades , Vienna, European publisher, 1963.

literature

  • Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? Berlin 1935, p. 38.
  • M. Lösch: Karl Wolfgang Ascher . In: Personal bibliographies of professors, lecturers and scientific assistants in ophthalmology and forensic medicine at the German Karl-Ferdinand University in Prague in the approximate period from 1910–1945 , doctoral thesis Erlangen-Nürnberg 1973, pp. 89f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Encyclopedia of Medical History , 2011, p. 1073.
  2. ↑ Ascher Syndrome. In: Orphanet (Rare Disease Database).
personal data
SURNAME Ascher, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ascher, Karl Wolfgang (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak-American medic
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 1971
Place of death Cincinnati (Ohio, USA)