Richard Deutschmann

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Richard Heinrich Deutschmann (born November 17, 1852 in Liegnitz , † November 13, 1935 in Hamburg ) was a German ophthalmologist .

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Richard Deutschmann studied medicine in Heidelberg, Göttingen, Bonn, Erlangen and Berlin. In 1874 he received his license to practice medicine . In 1878 he received his doctorate from the University of Erlangen “On the development of elastic fibers in network cartilage”. He then worked in Göttingen at the Physiological Institute and in Theodor Carl Gustav von Leber's eye clinic , where he completed his habilitation in the field of ophthalmology in 1877. In 1893 he received a call from Göttingen University as an associate professor and wrote for the first time for the "Contributions to Ophthalmology", which he himself published for me. Deutschmann dealt in particular with operations to detach the retina and wrote about this in 1906 "About a new surgical auxiliary procedure for detachments of the retina". In other writings he dealt with the congestive papilla and founded the migration theory of comprehensive eye inflammation with von Leber.

In 1887 Deutschmann left the University of Göttingen and moved to Hamburg, where two years later he took over the management of the ophthalmological polyclinic of the Israelite hospital . As an expert in the treatment of retinal detachments known throughout Europe, he had had a private clinic for 40 patients at Magdalenenstrasse 50 in Harvestehude since 1903 , where he also performed operations himself.

In 1889 Deutschmann received the award named after Albrecht von Graefe from the ophthalmological society in Heidelberg, which was considered the highest honor for ophthalmologists. During the First World War he received further awards, presumably for the treatment of wounded soldiers. In 1913 he received the Kompturkreuz of the Franz Joseph Order , in 1918 the Red Cross Medal and the Cross of Merit for War Aid .

Since he was considered a “non-Aryan” during the Nazi era , Deutschmann was unable to continue running his private clinic himself. In 1934, he transferred its management to Alice Grospierre-Tochenet, who had previously worked there as head nurse for many years. He headed the polyclinic himself until the end of his life in 1935.

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SURNAME Deutschmann, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deutschmann, Richard Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Liegnitz
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1935
Place of death Hamburg