Ludwig Bach

Ludwig Bach (born December 31, 1865 in Frankweiler ; † May 10 or May 11, 1912 in Marburg ) was a German ophthalmologist.

Life

The son of a Palatinate winery owner attended Landau high school. He studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg . Since 1886 he was a member of the Corps Rhenania Würzburg . After the state examination in 1888 he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. He began his specialist training in 1891 at the University Hospital in Würzburg , where he qualified as a professor in 1894 in ophthalmology . In Würzburg he was Julius von Michel's assistant from 1891 to 1900 . In 1900 he took over the chair for ophthalmology at the Philipps University of Marburg . Bach became dean of the medical faculty in 1903 . In 1911 he became a secret medical councilor . Bach particularly devoted himself to researching the innervation of the eye muscles . His pupil theory and the atlas of the history of the development of the eye edited with Richard Seefelder are his best known works. Bach succumbed to uremia at the age of 46 .

literature

• Werner Kyrieleis :  Bach, Richard Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 492 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludwig Bach in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bach, Ludwig R .. Hessian biography. (As of February 25, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Entry on Ludwig Bach in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marburg professor catalog online ; Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5701, p. 233 ( digitized version ).
2. ↑ Cf. for example Werner Kyrieleis:  Bach, Richard Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 492 f. ( Digitized version ) .; Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the forerunners to the middle of the 20th century German-speaking neurologists. Vol. 1. Munich 1996, p. 60.
3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 143/297
4. ↑ Dissertation: About Antipyrine as Nervinum in Subcutaneous Injection .
5. ↑ Habilitation thesis: About the germ content of the conjunctival sac, its natural and artificial influence and about the antiseptic value of eye ointments .