Otto-Erich Lund

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Otto-Erich Lund (born August 19, 1925 in Hanover ; † May 4, 2019 ) was a German ophthalmologist .

Life

His parents were the veterinarians Ludwig Lund and Käthe, b. Witt. Otto-Erich Lund studied from 1947 in his hometown of Hanover and in Bonn, where he received his doctorate in 1953 with a dissertation on the causes of Pick's disease and in 1962 completed his habilitation with a paper on the value of retinal vascular changes in arteriosclerosis diagnostics. In 1967 he became an adjunct professor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn .

From 1968 to 1993 Lund was full professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and director of the University Eye Clinic at LMU. Since 1975 he has been a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and since 1984 a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . He was an honorary member of the German Ophthalmic Society and Honorary President of the German Society of Ophthalmic Surgery . He was the bearer of the German Red Cross decoration .

Der Spiegel dubbed him the "Pope among eye surgeons".

Lund had been with the physician Dr. Berti Lund (née Jakobi) married.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary notice Otto-Erich Lund , FAZ from May 13, 2019
  2. ↑ a b Lund, Otto-Erich. In: Inge Bresser, Otto J. Groeg (Ed.): Who's Who in Munich. 1st edition, Munich 1980.
  3. ↑ Lund, Otto-Erich. In: Directory of professors and lecturers at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn 1818-1968. Bouvier, Bonn 1968.
  4. ↑ Medicine: Burned Children , Der Spiegel 52/1985
personal data
SURNAME Lund, Otto-Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 4th May 2019