Rudolf Berlin

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Rudolf August Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Berlin
University of Erlangen
Charité, Berlin
Known forCoining the term dyslexia
SpouseDorothea Berlin
Scientific career
FieldsOphthalmology
InstitutionsTechnical College of Stuttgart
Veterinary School, Stuttgart
University of Rostock

Rudolf August Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Berlin (2 May 1833 – 12 September 1897), also known as Rudolph Berlin, was a

ophthalmologist
.

Life and work

Rudolf Berlin was born to August Berlin (1803–1880), a physician, and his wife Amalie (née Runge, 1808–1884) in

Friedland (Mecklenburg)
. His grandfather, George Ludwig Berlin (1772–1823), had been a mayor of that city.

Rudolf Berlin attended the Gymnasium in his native city and took his

Erlangen, and ophthalmology under Albrecht von Graefe at the Charité in Berlin. Rudolf Berlin was a member of the Corps Hannovera Göttingen and Nassovia Würzburg.[1] After completing his studies he became an assistant to Alexander Pagenstecher in Wiesbaden and at the surgical clinic in Tübingen. In 1861 he set up an eye clinic in Stuttgart
.

In 1870 he completed a

Leopoldina
academy of sciences.

In 1887 Rudolf Berlin coined the term dyslexia.

In 1895 Berlin assumed the position of dean at the University of Rostock's Faculty of Medicine. In 1897 he was elected rector of the university. A few months later he died at the age of 65 during a spa stay in Switzerland. His is buried at the old cemetery in Rostock, today Lindenpark.

Berlin worked on many different topics, such as the

eye socket") in the Handbuch der gesamten Augenheilkunde ("Handbook of the entire field of Ophthalmology"), which was published by Albrecht von Graefe and Edwin Theodore Sämisch in Leipzig
in 1880.

Gravestone of Rudolf Berlin at the old cemetery in Rostock

Publications

  • Eine besondere Art der Wortblindheit (Dyslexie) ("A special kind of word blindness (Dyslexia)"). Wiesbaden 1887. (Online copy)

Footnotes

  1. ^ Kösener Korps-Listen ("Kösen Corps lists") 1910, 70, 288; 208, 153

References

  • Dorothea Berlin: Ein deutsches Freundespaar aus besserer Zeit: Rudolf Berlin und Gustav Nachtigal (A German pair of friends from better times: Rudolf Berlin and Gustav Nachtigal). Behr, Berlin, 1928.
  • Henry F. Curschmann: Blaubuch des Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen ("Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera Göttingen"), Volume 1, 1809-1899 Göttingen, 2002, p. 188, No. 584
  • Julius Pagel (1902), "Berlin, Rudolf", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 46, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 390

External links

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