Alfred Leber, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German ophthalmologist
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Place of Birth: Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium
About Alfred Leber
- Alfred Theodor Leber (March 7, 1881 – 1954) was a German ophthalmologist born in Antwerp.
- He was a nephew of renowned ophthalmologist Theodor Leber (1840-1917).
- Alfred Leber is considered to be the founder of German tropical ophthalmology. He studied at the Berlin Eye Clinic under Julius von Michel (1843-1911).
- In 1910-11 with parasitologist Stanislaus von Prowazek (1875-1915) of the Hamburg Tropical Institute, he was a member of a scientific expedition to Samoa, where he worked as a private lecturer.
- It was here that Leber discovered the effects on the eye caused by filarial infections by the parasite Wuchereria bancrofti.
- In 1912 he worked as a senior physician under Arthur von Hippel (1841-1916) at Göttingen. In 1913-14 he took part in the Medizinisch-demographische Deutsch-Neuguinea-Expedition to German New Guinea with physician Ludwig Külz (1875-1938) and painter Emil Nolde (1867-1956).
- At the outbreak of World War I, he along with writer Max Dauthendey (1867-1918) were unable to return to Germany, and spent the war years in the neutral Dutch East Indies.
- At Madang, Java he became a director in a hospital for eye and tropical diseases, and it was in Leber's clinic that Max Dauthendey died from malaria in August, 1918. After the war, Leber was unable to procure a position at the University of Göttingen, so he returned to work in Madang.
- During World War II he spent much of his time interred at a camp for German prisoners in Dehradun, India, and after his release became head of ophthalmology at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Bhopal.
- In 1952 he became director of the Institute of Ophthalmology at Aligarh Muslim University in Aligarh.
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