Karl Ernst Theodor Schweigger
Karl Ernst Theodor Schweigger
Karl Ernst Theodor Schweigger (28 October 1830 – 24 August 1905) was a German
Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger (1779–1857), inventor of an early galvanometer
.
He studied medicine in
Erlangen and Halle, earning his doctorate in 1852. Subsequently, he became a medical assistant to Peter Krukenberg (1788–1865) at the University of Halle, and from 1856 worked under anatomist Heinrich Müller (1820–1864) at the University of Würzburg. In Würzburg he learned microscopic pathology and anatomy of the eye, thus developing an interest in ophthalmology. Later he moved to Berlin, where he spent six years as an assistant to Albrecht von Graefe
(1828–1870).
In 1868 he was appointed professor of ophthalmology at the
Berlin
, a position he would hold for 28 years.
He is remembered for his work involving microscopic pathology of the eye. He also made contributions in his research of
ophthalmoscopy titled Vorlesungen über den Gebrauch des Augenspiegels (1864).[1]
Schweigger died in Berlin.
Associated eponym
- "Schweigger's perimeter": Handheld instrument used to measure the extent of a visual field[2]
References
- ^ Vorlesungen über den Gebrauch des Augenspiegels Archive.org
- ^ OHSU Historical Collections & Archives[permanent dead link] Schweigger's perimeter
- XIXth Convention of the Julius-Hirschberg-Gesellschaft Modern Ophthalmology in North-West Germany
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