Back هوجو ماجنوس ARZ Hugo Magnus (Mediziner) German הוגו מגנוס HE Hugo Magnus Italian Магнус, Гуго Russian
Hugo Magnus (31 May 1842 in Neumarkt in Schlesien – 15 April 1907 in Breslau) was a German ophthalmologist and historian of medicine. He was of Jewish ancestry.[1]
He studied medicine at the University of Breslau, where he was a pupil of Albrecht Theodor Middeldorpf and Hermann Lebert. In 1867 he received his medical doctorate, and in 1873 qualified as a lecturer in ophthalmology. In 1883 he became an associate professor at the University of Breslau.[2]
He is remembered for his intensive studies of color blindness and color sense.[3] He also conducted research of eye diseases; in 1874 he made an early observation of what would be later known as Von Hippel–Lindau syndrome,[4] and in 1878 he provided an early clinical description of proptosis in infantile scurvy.[5] He was the author of numerous works with history of medicine themes (including ophthalmology).
- ^ Charles Archibald Stonehill, The Jewish contribution to civilization, p. 112
- ^ Magnus, Hugo Pagel: Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Ärzte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Berlin, Wien 1901, Sp. 1078-1079.
- ^ "Professor Hugo Magnus". Br Med J. 1 (2418): 1096. 1907. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.2418.1096-b. PMC 2357704.
- ^ Reich, H; Hollwich, F (1984). "[Von Hippel–Lindau syndrome]". Klin Monbl Augenheilkd. 184 (6): 513–9. doi:10.1055/s-2008-1054543. PMID 6384634.
- ^ Handbook of Nutrition and Ophthalmology by Richard David Semba