Wilhelm Doden

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Wilhelm Georg Bernhard Doden (born April 20, 1919 in Leer ; † April 29, 1994 ) was a German ophthalmologist and from 1967 to 1987 head of the University Clinic for Eye Diseases in Frankfurt am Main.

Career

Wilhelm Doden attended the secondary school in Leer and began studying medicine at the University of Münster in 1937 , which, interrupted by military service and imprisonment, he was only able to complete in 1946 with a license to practice medicine . He then worked at the district hospital in Leer, as a country doctor in East Friesland and as an assistant at the polyclinic in Rostock. In 1948 he was in Münster with the work bacteremia within comparative therapeutic studies of pneumonia doctorate , where he was followed by two years at the physiological-chemical Institute and one year employed at the Institute of Biophysics and in different research in the field of physiology and pathophysiology was involved . He also completed internal training. In 1951 he went to the University Eye Clinic in Freiburg im Breisgau , where he turned to ophthalmology under Wilhelm Wegner . Doden received his habilitation in 1957 at the University of Freiburg with a thesis on disorders of the opto-vestibular system in strabismus . He then found employment in Freiburg, initially as a private lecturer and from 1962 as an adjunct professor until 1967, most recently as a senior physician at the eye clinic.

From Freiburg, he was appointed to the University Clinic in Frankfurt am Main, succeeding Rudolf Thiel , who had recently died , where he took over the chair of ophthalmology on May 10, 1967. The year before, he had refused an appointment to the Medical Academy in Lübeck.

During Doden's work in Frankfurt, the clinic's field of work and research increasingly shifted to surgery of the anterior segment of the eye. He made a major contribution to establishing cataract surgery in Germany. While the number of operations increased tenfold, the patient's hospital stay was drastically reduced. In autumn 1987 he retired as director of the Center for Ophthalmology at the University Clinics in Frankfurt.

Wilhelm Doden was a member or honorary member of numerous domestic and foreign professional organizations. In 1984, as the first chairman of the Ophthalmological Society , he chaired its 82nd conference at his office in Frankfurt. He was awarded the Ernst von Bergmann plaque by the German Medical Association. He was also awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon in 1986 . In the same year he was one of the co-founders of the German-speaking Society for Intraocular Lens Implantation . Doden published extensively in relevant specialist journals and partly in higher editions publications on ophthalmology.

Publications (selection)

  • Bacteria chemistry in the context of comparative therapeutic studies of pneumonia. Dissertation University of Münster 1948.
  • About disorders of the opto-vestibular system in strabismus. Habilitation thesis University of Freiburg im Breisgau 1957.

literature

  • Wilhelm Doden . In: Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . Founded by Joseph Kürschner . 12th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin 1976, ISBN 3-11-004470-6 , p. 533 .
  • Wilhelm Doden (1919-1994) . In: Günter Mackensen, Hanns-Hellmuth Unger, Heinrich Witschel: The development of ophthalmology. A historical review in Freiburg. Schillinger, Freiburg 1997, ISBN 3-89155-204-1 , p. 70.
  • Hans Joachim Küchle: Eye clinics at German-speaking universities and their professors in the 19th and 20th centuries. Biermann, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-930505-47-9 , p. X.
  • German Ophthalmological Society (ed.): Visus and vision. 150 years of DOG. Biermann, Cologne 2007 ( digitized version ).
  • 100 years of the University Eye Clinic Frankfurt am Main . Frankfurt 2014, pp. 11–13 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Obituary for Wilhelm Boden . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt 91, issue 29, September 30, 1994 (79). Retrieved November 19, 2015.
  2. ↑ doi: 10.1007 / BF02432738 , doi: 10.1007 / BF02046280 , doi: 10.1007 / BF02046877
  3. ↑ a b Who is who? The German who's who . 22nd edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1983, ISBN 3-7950-2003-4 , p. 224.
  4. ^ Wilhelm Doden. In: 100 Years of the University Eye Clinic Frankfurt.Retrieved on November 19, 2015.
  5. ^ Deutsches Ärzteblatt 85, Issue 23, June 9, 1988 .
  6. ↑ German Ophthalmological Society. President since the company was founded. Wilhelm Doden was President 1983/84. Retrieved November 19, 2015.
  7. ↑ Deutsches Ärzteblatt 84, Issue 1/2, January 2, 1987 .
  8. ↑ M. Amon, J. Kuchenbecker, T. Kohnen (eds.): 25th Congress of the German-speaking Society for Intraocular Lens Implantation, Interventional and Refractive Surgery. P. 7 (with picture) .
personal data
SURNAME Doden, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Doden, Wilhelm Georg Bernhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Empty
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1994