Theodor Leber

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Theodor Leber (1896)

Theodor Karl Gustav Leber (born February 29, 1840 in Karlsruhe , † April 7, 1917 in Heidelberg ) was a German ophthalmologist .

Life

Leber was the son of a Karlsruhe professor of linguistics . Originally he planned to study chemistry, but the well-known professor Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen advised him to study medicine because there were too many chemists at the time . During his studies he became a member of the Frankonia Heidelberg fraternity . In Heidelberg he was a student of Hermann Helmholtz , where he also obtained his doctorate in 1862 and then worked for a year as an assistant to Hermann Jakob Knapp (1832–1911) at the eye clinic of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . After that, Leber went to Vienna to study physiology under Carl Ludwig . But he soon turned back to ophthalmology and became assistant doctor to Albrecht Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst von Graefe in Berlin for the years from 1867 to 1870. For some time he also worked in Paris . In 1869 he completed his habilitation at the Charité . In 1871 he became associate professor and in 1873 full professor for ophthalmology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . From 1890 to 1910 he was full professor and clinic director in Heidelberg. He was the managing editor of the Albrecht von Graefe Archive for Ophthalmology . Leber's optic atrophy , a disease of the optic nerve, and Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA) were named after Leber . Today's Alcon Retina Scholarship to promote pharmacological and pharmacophysiological research in ophthalmology was originally called Theodor Leber Scholarship . Karl Wessely was a student .

Theodor von Leber was buried in the Bergfriedhof (Heidelberg) in section R. The tomb is adorned by a pillar-like obelisk made of gray granite. In addition to Leber, his second wife Ottilie Leber, Otto Mejer's daughter , and another member of the family rest here .

One nephew was the tropical ophthalmologist Alfred Leber .

Honors

Leber's grave

Works

  • Anatomical studies of the blood vessels of the human eye. Memorandum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna, 1865.
  • with Johann Baptist Rottenstein : Investigations into the caries of the teeth. Berlin, 1867.
  • Studies of fluid changes in the eye. In: Albrecht von Graefes Archiv für Ophthalmologie , Vol. 19, No. 2, 1873, pp. 87–185 doi : 10.1007 / BF01720618 .
  • About the diseases of the eye in diabetes mellitus. In: Albrecht von Graefes Archiv für Ophthalmologie , Vol. 21, No. 3, 1875, pp. 206–337 doi : 10.1007 / BF01695031 .
  • The circulation and nutritional conditions of the eye. in Graefe-Saemisch: Handbook of the entire ophthalmology , 1876.
  • The diseases of the retina and the optic nerve. in Graefe-Saemisch: Handbook of the entire ophthalmology , Vol. 3 and 4; Leipzig, 1877; 2nd edition, 1915-1916.
  • The origin of the inflammation and the effect of the inflammatory harmful substances. in Graefe-Saemisch: Handbook of the entire ophthalmology , Vol. 4. Leipzig, 1891.
  • On retinitis pigmentosa and congenital amaurosis . Albrecht von Graefes Archiv für Ophthalmologie , Vol. 15: 1-25, 1869. (Here the Leber congenital amaurosis is described for the first time)

literature

Web links

Commons : Theodor Leber  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to NDB and leo bw
  2. ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 118.
  3. ↑ Leena Ruuskanen: The Heidelberg Bergfriedhof through the ages , Verlag Regionalkultur, 2008, p. 104
  4. ↑ For his 12-year work The Origin of Inflammation and the Effect of Inflammatory Harmfulness. After examinations, preferably on the eye
personal data
SURNAME Leber, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leber, Theodor Carl Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1917
Place of death Heidelberg