Alfred Bielschowsky
Alfred Bielschowsky (December 11, 1871 – April 5, 1940) was a German
oculomotor
anomalies.
Bielschowsky was born in
ophthalmologist Theodor Leber (1840-1917). Afterwards he studied medicine at the University of Berlin, attending the lectures of Karl Ernst Theodor Schweigger (1830-1905) and graduating in 1893. He received his medical license in Leipzig
on March 1 of the same year.
Bielschowsky subsequently studied and worked in the eye clinic at the
University of Leipzig, receiving his habilitation in 1900 and becoming head physician of the clinic in 1906. While at Leipzig he worked under physiologist Ewald Hering (1834-1918), and with Franz Bruno Hofmann (1869-1926), he conducted studies of fusion and cyclodeviation in superior oblique muscle paresis. In 1912 Bielschowsky attained the chair of ophthalmology at the University of Marburg
.
During
Wilhelm II, German Emperor
.
In 1923 Bielschowsky was appointed chair of ophthalmology at the University of Breslau. While here, he published "Die Lähmungen der Augenmuskeln" (1932), an influential work on
eye muscle
disturbances.
Because of his
Jewish heritage and Nazi persecution, Bielschowsky was fired from his position in 1934, later emigrating to the United States (1936). In 1937 he became head of the Dartmouth Eye Institute at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.[1]
However, he died suddenly in 1940.
During the same year his "Lectures on motor anomalies" was published.
Associated eponym
- Bielschowsky's head tilt test:[2] A test for palsy of the superior oblique muscle caused by damage to cranial nerve IV (trochlear nerve).
References
- ^ Prof. Dr. med. Alfred Bielschowsky Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig
- Who Named It?
- Ophthalmology Hall of Fame (Biography and Photo)
- Alfred Bielschowsky @ Who Named It
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