Richard Greeff (medic, 1862)

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Karl Richard Greeff (born June 18, 1862 in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal ), † November 4, 1938 in Berlin ) was a German ophthalmologist .

Life

Richard Greeff was a son of the doctor and zoologist of the same name Richard Greeff . He studied in Marburg , Leipzig and Berlin and did his doctorate in Marburg On the Eye of Siphorops thomensis . After initially being an assistant at Hermann Schmidt-Rimpler , he switched to Karl Schweigger as an assistant . At times he also worked in Frankfurt am Main at the Senckenberg Institute under the pathologist Carl Weigert .

His habilitation thesis in Berlin from 1894 was entitled On the finer structure of the retina and the optic nerve . From 1897 Richard Greeff headed the department for eye patients at the Charité as an associate professor and gradually expanded it into a full and polyclinic. Despite numerous appointments at other universities, he stayed in Berlin until his retirement in 1928. During his tenure, however, he made several trips towards the end of the 19th century to study the nature and treatment options of trachoma . These took him to Russia , India and Egypt, among others .

Greeff was also interested in medical history and art. He researched the ophthalmological representations in art, the history of ophthalmology and glasses and other visual aids, and that of the optician's trade. He also dealt with the life of the ophthalmologist Albrecht von Graefe and put on a collection of historical ophthalmoscopes and other instruments, some of which were later housed in the Graefe Museum in Heidelberg . The greater part went into the possession of the Medico-Historisches Museum in the Kaiserin-Friedrich-Haus in Berlin. His collection on the subject of glasses and visual aids became the basis of the collection of the Carl Zeiss Foundation in Jena .

tomb

Richard Greeff remained unmarried. His brother-in-law Hugo Vogel created a portrait of the ophthalmologist, which is in the optician school in Jena. He is buried next to Vogel in the Wannsee cemetery, Lindenstrasse . Both graves are dedicated to the city of Berlin as graves of honor .

literature

Web links

Commons : Richard Greeff (ophthalmologist)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ R. Greeff with the assistance of H. Pistor : From the history of glasses. In: Otto Henker: Introduction to the theory of glasses. 4th, completely revised edition. Edited by H. Pistor, Pößneck - Jena 1948 (= Der Augenoptiker. Volume 3), pp. 321–384.
personal data
SURNAME Greeff, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist and medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1938
Place of death Berlin