Rudolf Schirmer

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Rudolf Schirmer
Memorial plaque for Rudolf Schirmer at Bahnhofstrasse 52 in Greifswald

Rudolf Schirmer (born March 10, 1831 in Greifswald ; † January 27, 1896 there ) was a German ophthalmologist , professor at the University of Greifswald and the founder and first director of the university eye clinic there.

Rudolf Schirmer was the son of Greifswald consistorial councilor and superintendent Professor August Schirmer (1791–1863). His brother Johann Theodor Schirmer (1827–1904) was Professor of Law in Königsberg.

Rudolf Schirmer attended grammar school in Greifswald , switched to grammar school in Schulpforta and passed his school-leaving examination there. He then studied medicine in Göttingen , Greifswald, Vienna , Paris and Berlin . He was a student of Albrecht von Graefe (1828–1870). After receiving his doctorate , he completed his habilitation in Berlin in 1860. He then founded ophthalmological classes at the University of Greifswald. After he had gradually built up and expanded the regular care of eye patients in the surgical clinic from 1871, the newly built eye clinic was opened under his leadership in 1887, which he managed until 1893.

Rudolf Schirmer married Emma Planck (1844-1894), a half-sister of Max Planck , on September 15, 1863 . Because of his increasing myopia- related visual impairment, his son Otto Schirmer moved to the Greifswald Eye Clinic in 1893 and in 1896 took over the chair of ophthalmology at the University of Greifswald. 1896 Rudolf Schirmer died of influenza - pneumonia . His grandson Herbert Peiper was professor of surgery at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz.

The establishment of ophthalmology as an independent subject, work on refraction and accommodation anomalies and diseases of the lacrimal system are among his most important achievements.

scientific publications

  • A case of telangiectasia. In: Archives for Ophthalmology. Vol. 7, Abt. 1, 1860, ISSN  0721-8494 , pp. 119-121, ( digitized version ).
  • The doctrine of disorders of refraction and accommodation of the eye. For doctors and students. Hirschwald, Berlin 1866, ( digitized version ).

literature

predecessor Office successor
Wilhelm Schuppe Rector of the University of Greifswald
1885 		Heinrich Ulmann
personal data
SURNAME Schirmer, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schirmer, Fridericus Rudolfus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German human medicine, professor of ophthalmology in Greifswald
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1896
Place of death Greifswald