Oswald Marchesani

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Oswald Marchesani (born May 1, 1900 in Schwaz , Tyrol; † March 6, 1952 in Kiel ) was a German-Austrian ophthalmologist and university professor .

Life

Marchesani grew up in Bolzano and after finishing school he studied medicine in Innsbruck and Freiburg at the Franciscan high school in Bolzano . In 1923 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. Under Richard Seefelder he began his ophthalmological training at the Eye Clinic in Innsbruck, later worked briefly in Freiburg and in 1927 moved to the Munich University Eye Clinic under Karl Wessely .

He completed his habilitation in 1928 and became an adjunct professor in 1934. Although he was not a member of the NSDAP , he was appointed to the chair of the University of Münster in 1934 and taught there as a full professor from 1936. Finally, at the beginning of 1945, he received the call of the University of Hamburg as successor to Carl Behr , which he only accepted after the war.

Scientific activity

In 1939 he reported about an eight-year-old boy and three children from another family, all of whom had lens ectopia (displacement of the lens) typical of the Marfan syndrome . In contrast to Marfan syndrome, however, these sufferers had short fingers. This newly discovered combination of symptoms was named after him and the Strasbourg ophthalmologist Georges Weill Weill-Marchesani syndrome .

His main focus was on research in the border areas of ophthalmology, especially neurology . He wrote an important chapter in Bumke & Förster's handbook of neurology . Marchesani was co-editor of the journals Albrecht von Graefes Archive for Ophthalmology and Ophthalmology of the Present .

Publications (selection)

  • O. Marchesani. Symptomatology of diseases of the optic nerve . In: Oswald Bumke , Otfrid Foerster (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Neurologie. Vol. 4 (1936).
  • O. Marchesani. Brachydactyly and congenital spherical lens as a systemic disease. Clinical monthly sheets for ophthalmology, Stuttgart, (1939), 103: 392-406.
  • O. Marchesani & H. Sauter. Atlas of the fundus Urban & Schwarzenberg 1956, 2 volumes.

Literature (selection)

  • Jean-Paul Wayenborgh (Ed.): IBBO. International Biography and Bibliography of Ophthalmologists and Vision Scientists. Volume 2, Oostende, Belgium, 2001 (Hirschberg History of ophthalmology. The monographs; volume 7)
  • http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/938.html
  • Peter Beighton, Greta Beighton: The man behind the syndrome. Springer Verlag (Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Tokyo) ISBN 978-1-4471-1415-4

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jens M Rohrbach: Ophthalmology in National Socialism . Schattauer, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7945-2512-6 .
  2. ↑ O. Marchesani: Brachydactyly and congenital spherical lens as a systemic disease . In: Clinical monthly sheets for ophthalmology . tape 103 , 1939, pp. 392-406 .
personal data
SURNAME Marchesani, Oswald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian ophthalmologist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwaz , Tyrol
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1952
Place of death Kiel