Karl Bruno Stargardt (4 December 1875
Berlin – 2 April 1927) was a German
ophthalmologist
Ophthalmology ( ) is a surgery, surgical subspecialty within medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of eye disorders.
An ophthalmologist is a physician who undergoes subspecialty training in medical and surgical eye care. Followin ...
.
Life
In 1899 he received his doctorate from the
University of Kiel, where he later became chief physician at the university eye clinic. Afterwards he worked in the eye clinic at
Strassburg, then becoming head of ophthalmology at
Bonn. In 1923 he succeeded
Alfred Bielschowsky (1871-1940) as chair of ophthalmology at the
University of Marburg. Soon afterwards he developed
nephritis
Nephritis is inflammation of the kidneys and may involve the glomeruli, tubules, or interstitial tissue surrounding the glomeruli and tubules. It is one of several different types of nephropathy.
Types
* Glomerulonephritis is inflammation of th ...
and
cardiac complications, and died on April 2, 1927.
His name is associated with
Stargardt disease
Stargardt disease is the most common inherited single-gene retinal disease. In terms of the first description of the disease, it follows an autosomal recessive inheritance pattern, which has been later linked to bi-allelic ABCA4 gene variants (S ...
, an hereditary eye disease that is one of the most common causes of childhood
macular degeneration.
Written works
* ''Über Epithelzellveränderungen beim Trachom und andern Conjunctivalerkrankungen''. (Concerning hereditary, progressive degeneration in the macular region of the eye);
Albrecht von Graefe's Archiv für Ophthalmologie, 1909, 69, 525–542.
* ''Diagnostik der Farbensinnstörungen''. (Diagnosis of
color vision
Color vision, a feature of visual perception, is an ability to perceive differences between light composed of different wavelengths (i.e., different spectral power distributions) independently of light intensity. Color perception is a part of ...
problems); Berlin, 1912.
* ''Über die Ursachen des Sehnervenschwundes bei der Tabes und der progressiven Paralyse''. (About the causes of
optic nerve atrophy in tabes and progressive paralysis); from Royal. Psychiatr. and Nerve Clinic in
Kiel with medical advice by Prof. Dr.
Ernst Siemerling
References
External links
Ophthalmology Hall of Fame
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Academic staff of the University of Marburg
Physicians from Berlin
German ophthalmologists
1875 births
1927 deaths