Hermann Wilbrand, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German ophthalmologist
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Place of Birth: Gießen, Hesse, Germany
About Hermann Wilbrand
- Hermann Wilbrand (22 May 1851 – 17 September 1935) was a German ophthalmologist born in Giessen.
- Wilbrand's father and grandfather were also physicians.
- In 1875, he earned his doctorate at the University of Strassburg, and afterwards was an assistant to Ludwig Laqueur (1839-1909) at Strassburg and to Carl Friedrich Richard Förster (1825-1902) at Breslau.
- Later he moved to Hamburg, where he became head of the department of ophthalmology at Allgemeines Hospital in 1905. Wilbrand specialized in the field of neuro-ophthalmology and did extensive research involving the pathology and physiology of the eye.
- He demonstrated that homonymous hemianopsia was caused by lesions in the occipital lobe and optic radiation as well as the optic tract.
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