Otto Becker (doctor)

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Otto Becker

Otto Heinrich Enoch Becker (born May 3, 1828 in Domhof Ratzeburg , † February 7, 1890 in Heidelberg ) was a German ophthalmologist and university professor.

Life

Memorial plaque on the house in Ratzeburg, where Becker spent his childhood

Otto Becker was one of nine children of the vice-principal and later the last rector of the Ratzeburg Cathedral School Ulrich Justus Hermann Becker and his wife Mathilde, nee. Hufeland, a daughter of Gottlieb Hufeland . After attending the cathedral school he studied theology and philology at the University of Erlangen in 1847 , mathematics and natural sciences in Berlin from 1848–51, then went to Vienna as court master , studied human medicine at the University of Vienna from 1854–59 . His teachers included Karl von Graefe and Ferdinand von Arlt . During his studies in Erlangen he became a member of the Bubenreuther fraternity in the winter semester of 1847/48 . In 1859 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. In 1868 he was appointed full professor of ophthalmology at the University of Heidelberg , where he remained until the end of his life.

Becker was one of the more important representatives of his field during the second half of the 19th century . José Rizal was one of his students . In 1887 he founded the Von Graefe Museum at Heidelberg University in memory of Albrecht von Graefe (1828–1870).

A plaque commemorates him on his parents' house in Ratzeburg, the former director's house at Domhof 40.

family

Becker married Helene Figdor (1840–1890), a sister of the banker and art collector Albert Figdor (1843–1927) , on February 2, 1864 in Vienna . Her father was the Viennese merchant Ferdinand Figdor (1805–1876), an uncle of the violinist Joseph Joachim .

Works

  • (Translation) Franciscus Cornelis Donders : Anomalies of Accommodation and Refraction of the Eye. 1866
  • Atlas of the pathological topography of the eye (Vienna 1874–78)
  • Pathology and therapy of the lens system in Gräfe-Samisch '"Handbuch der Augenheilkunde" (5th volume, 1st half, Leipz. 1875)
  • On the anatomy of the healthy and diseased lens (Wiesbad. 1883)
  • The University Eye Clinic in Heidelberg (that. 1888)
  • Pathology and Therapy of the Lens.

literature

Web links

Commons : Otto Becker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Becker, Otto . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 2, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1905, p.  536 .
  2. ↑ Ernst Höhne: The Bubenreuther. History of a German fraternity. II., Erlangen 1936, p. 168.
  3. ^ Julius Pagel:  Becker, Otto . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, p. 326 f.
  4. ↑ Dagmar Drüll, Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1803-1932 , Berlin 1986, p. 15 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Becker, Otto Heinrich Enoch (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Ratzeburg Cathedral Courtyard
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1890
Place of death Heidelberg