Rudolf Berlin

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Rudolf Berlin

Rudolf August Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Berlin , also Rudolph Berlin (born May 2, 1833 in Friedland (Mecklenburg) ; † September 12, 1897 in Linthal ; buried in Rostock ) was a German ophthalmologist.

Life

Rudolf Berlin was born as the son of the doctor August Berlin (1803-1880) and his wife Amalie, b. Runge (1808-1884), born. His grandfather Georg Ludwig Berlin (1772-1823) was the mayor of Friedland. Amalie Runge was a niece of the well-known painter Philipp Otto Runge .

He attended high school in his hometown and passed Michaelis ' Abitur here in 1853. He then studied medicine in Göttingen , Würzburg and Erlangen as well as ophthalmology with Albrecht von Graefe at the Berlin Charité . Rudolf Berlin was a member of the Corps Hannovera Göttingen and Nassovia Würzburg . After completing his studies, he became an assistant to Alexander Pagenstecher in Wiesbaden and at the surgical clinic in Tübingen . In 1861 he set up an eye clinic in Stuttgart . In 1870 he completed his habilitation there for physiological optics at the Technical University. In 1875 he became professor of comparative ophthalmology at the veterinary school in Stuttgart. Berlin first practiced ophthalmology systematically in a comparative way and from 1882 published the magazine for comparative ophthalmology , in which he published a paper on the physical-optical structure of the horse's eye . In 1884 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy . In 1887 Rudolf Berlin coined the term dyslexia . In 1895/96 he was dean of the Rostock Medical Faculty. In 1897 he was elected rector . Just a few months later, he died at the age of 65 during a spa stay in Switzerland . His gravestone has been preserved in the old cemetery in Rostock, today's Lindenpark.

Berlin examined the extirpation of the lacrimal sac, the influence of the convex lenses on eccentric vision, the cutting of the optic nerve , the detachment of the retina in horses , the pathology and anatomy of the lacrimal glands, the refraction of the animal's eyes and much more.

Works

Grave in the old cemetery in Rostock

literature

  • Dorothea Berlin: A German pair of friends from a better time: Rudolf Berlin and Gustav Nachtigal . Behr, Berlin 1928
  • Heinrich F. Curschmann: Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen, Vol. 1: 1809-1899. Göttingen 2002, p. 188, no.584
  • Julius Pagel:  Berlin, Rudolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, p. 390.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to other sources in Bad Stachelberg, Canton Glarus; ADB wrongly: in Rostock.
  2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 70/288; 208/153

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personal data
SURNAME Berlin, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berlin, Rudolf August Johann Ludwig Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedland (Mecklenburg)
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1897
Place of death Linthal , Canton of Glarus, Switzerland