Wolfgang Stock (ophthalmologist)

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Wolfgang Stock (1910)

Wolfgang Stock (born April 26, 1874 in Bönnigheim , † September 7, 1956 in Tübingen ) was a German ophthalmologist .

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Wolfgang Stock was the son of Carl Adolf Stock (1844–1941) and his wife Luise geb. Köstlin (1846–1935) born. He attended grammar school in Cannstatt and, after graduating from high school, studied medicine at the universities of Tübingen , Munich and Berlin . As a student in Tübingen, he joined the Igel Academic Association in Tübingen in the winter semester of 1892/93 .

From 1899 he was an assistant at the university eye clinics in Tübingen, Breslau and Freiburg . He received his doctorate in Tübingen and habilitated in Freiburg in 1903 . In 1903 Stock was made a private lecturer in ophthalmology and in 1907 an associate professor .

In 1910 he became a professor at the University of Jena appointed where Wolfgang Stock taught a decade. During the disciplinary proceedings against Max Henkel , the then head of the Jena University Women's Clinic, Stock was briefly commissioned to represent the women's clinic on a temporary basis.

In 1921 Wolfgang Stock was appointed to the chair for ophthalmology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and appointed director of the Tübingen University Eye Clinic. In World War II he was also the reserve located in the clinic managers hospital and thus a member of the Armed Forces , which recruited about 30 percent of all eye doctors in the war. The Nazi party did not join floor. He headed the clinic for 30 years until his retirement in 1952.

Wolfgang Stock died in Tübingen at the age of 82. He was born with Marthe Stock. Asselin (1885–1973) married. From this marriage the children Helga (1911–1992), doctor and sculptor Wolfgang (1913–1997), Liselotte (1916–1998) and Dora (1921–2003) emerged.

Wolfgang Stock (shortly after 1920)

Achievements and appreciation

Wolfgang Stock worked scientifically in the field of the pathological anatomy of the eye . His work on tuberculosis of the eye attracted particular attention . In addition, Stock was considered an excellent surgeon who performed over 10,000 cataract operations alone and also made significant contributions in the field of corneal transplantation . In Tübingen he put on an extensive collection of ophthalmopathological preparations. The Batten Disease is also known as Vogt game Meyer Stick disease called. The city of Tübingen honored Wolfgang Stock by naming a street on the Waldhäuser Höhe after him. Wolfgang-Stock-Straße extends between Gottlieb-Olpp-Straße and Haußerstraße, where it crosses Niethammerstraße and Hofmeisterstraße.

Fonts (selection)

  • A case of periodically recurring oculomotor paralysis , Pietzcker 1898
  • Experimental investigations on the localization of endogenous harmful effects of a particularly infectious nature in the eye: at the same time a contribution to the question of the development of endogenous iritis and chorioditis, as well as sympathetic ophthalmia , Enke 1903
  • Tuberculosis as the etiology of chronic inflammation of the eye and its adnexa , Leipzig 1907
  • Diseases of the iris of the lens and vitreous body . In: J. Schwalbe: Diagnostic and therapeutic errors and their prevention , Book 2, Georg Thieme, Leipzig 1922
  • Experimental work in the field of ocular tuberculosis . In: Speeches on the occasion of the handover of the rectorate , Volume 21, Mohr, Tübingen 1924
  • Tear organs pathology . In: Alfred K Graefe, Theodor Saemisch, Carl von Hess, Anton Elschnig (Eds.): Handbuch der Gesamt Augenheilkunde , Volume 9, Dept. 3/4, Springer, Berlin 1925
  • X-ray treatment in ophthalmology . In: Ludwig Mann, H. Borutteau: Handbook of the entire medical application of electricity , Volume 3, Leipzig 1928
  • Pathological anatomy of the eye: short textbook for students and doctors , Enke, Stuttgart 1939

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Stock in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  2. ↑ Katrin Ratz: The "Max Henkel" case. The official criminal proceedings against the Jena Full Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics (1915–1918) Dissertation , Friedrich Schiller University Jena , 2002 (PDF document; 500 kB)
  3. ^ History of Ophthalmopathology , University Eye Clinic Tübingen

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personal data
SURNAME Stock, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Bönnigheim
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1956
Place of death Tübingen