Hugo Magnus

Hugo Magnus (31 May 1842, in Neumarkt in Schlesien 15 April 1907, in Breslau) was a German ophthalmologist and historian of medicine.

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.[1]

He is remembered for his intensive studies of color blindness and color sense.[2] 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,[3] and in 1878 he provided an early clinical description of proptosis in infantile scurvy.[4] He was the author of numerous works with history of medicine themes (including ophthalmology).

Selected works

References

  1. Magnus, Hugo Pagel: Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Ärzte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Berlin, Wien 1901, Sp. 1078-1079.
  2. Professor Hugo Magnus Br Med J v.1(2418); 1907 May 4 PMC2357704
  3. Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome Klin Monbl Augenheilkd. 1984 Jun;184(6):513-9.
  4. Handbook of Nutrition and Ophthalmology by Richard David Semba
  5. HathiTrust Digital LIbrary published works
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