Richard Förster (medic)

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Richard Förster (born November 15, 1825 in Lissa , Province of Posen , † July 7, 1902 in Breslau ) was a German ophthalmologist and university professor .

Life

As the son of a pharmacist, Förster studied medicine from 1845 at the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Breslau , the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . During his studies he was a member of the 1845 Breslauer Burschenschaft and 1847 Konkneipant the fraternity Frankonia Heidelberg . In Berlin he received his doctorate in 1849 with a thesis on anthrax vesicles . Jakob Henle , Ludwig Traube and Rudolf Virchow were among his teachers . After stays in Paris and Vienna, he worked at the All Saints Hospital in Breslau from 1855. There he turned to ophthalmology. In 1857 he completed his habilitation at the University of Breslau. After six years as a lecturer , he was in 1863 as an associate professor and in 1873 as professor appointed. For the academic years 1884/85 and 1897/98 he was elected rector . As such, he was made a member of the Prussian manor house for life in 1894 . After his retirement in 1896, he retired to an estate in Bronikowo in West Prussia .

Förster shaped ophthalmology primarily through his invention of the perimeter , which he presented at an international symposium in Paris in 1867 and whose further developments are still in use today. In addition, he wrote numerous other ophthalmological studies, including for the Zeitschrift für Augenheilkunde , but continued to devote himself to topics from other areas of medicine, such as research into cholera , which he suspected to be caused by contaminated water years before the pathogen was discovered.

Förster's Breslau students include Hermann Wilbrand and Hermann Aubert .

Fonts

  • Ophthalmological contributions. Berlin 1862. ( digitized version )
  • with Hermann Aubert: Contributions to the knowledge of indirect vision. Archives for Ophthalmology, Vol. 3. Berlin 1857.
  • The spread of cholera through the wells. Clinical monthly sheets for ophthalmology , Berlin 1873.
  • Relationship between general ailments and diseases of the visual organ , in: Theodor Saemisch and Alfred Graefe (eds.): Handbuch der Gesamt Augenheilkunde , Vol. 5, 1st edition. Leipzig 1877, pp. 59-233.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: De pustula maligna
  2. ↑ Habilitation thesis: About hemeralopia and the use of a photometer in the field of ophthalmology
  3. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Forester, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Förster, Carl Friedrich Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist; University professor and rector in Wroclaw
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Lissa , Poznan Province
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1902
Place of death Wroclaw