Family

It came of to a Saxonian family and was the son of the royally Prussian secret Medizinalrats and general staff physician of the army Dr. med. Karl von Graefe (1787-1840), o. Professor of the surgery and director of the surgical hospital of the University of Berlin, and Augusts von Alten (1797-1857). Father Karl was only to 2. /14. February 1826 in sank Petersburg raised into the Polish hereditary nobility with Prussian aristocracy acknowledgment on 16 November 1826 in Berlin.

Graefe married on 7 June 1862 in Sakrow with potsdam Anna countess Knuth (house Conradsborg) (* 15. March 1842 in Frederiksborg, Denmark; "† 22. March 1872 in Nice, the daughter of the royally Danish chamber gentleman and office man Hans Schack count Knuth and the Frederikke de .

Life

Graefe studied medicine, mathematics, physics and chemistry in Berlin. Its thesis still wrote he 1847 on Latin. Afterwards it was Assistenzarzt in Prague, where it began to dedicate itself to the eye medicine completely.

He continued to learn in Paris, Vienna and London and returned 1852 to Berlin, where he opened habilitierte and a private ophthalmic clinic with 120 beds, which enjoyed both in practice as well as in the research immediately world fame. With the treatment Graefe was extraordinarily socially adjusted, since he did not make a difference regarding the social layers - not least therefore him its pupil Julius deer mountain in a ring-back signal called one "„Apostel of suffering mankind ".

Two years later, 1854, he created the first eye-medical technical periodical with "„archives for Ophthalmologie ". 1866 became Graefe director of the eye-medical department of the and were particularly successful with the treatment becoming green of the star and squinting (Strabismus). More it is to have accomplished than 10,000 eye operations. Different technical terms carry the names of the physician, as for example "„the Graefe syndrome ", "„the Graefe mark " or "„the Graefe reflex ". Also the consistent application of the ophthalmoscope developed by Helmholtz decreases/goes back on Graefe, which died with 42 years at a Lungentuberkulose.

Already 1875, only five years after the death of the physician, were renamed in Berlin cross mountain "„the road No. 7 " honour for the sake of in Graefestrasse, which is again today name giver for the surrounding Graefekiez.

At the house Reinhardtstrasse 46 attached the senate a Gedenktafel for Graefe, besides he received a citizen of Berlin honour grave on the Evangelist cemetery of the Jerusalems and new Kirchgemeinde II in cross mountain. The gravestone carries the message:

It is lovely the light, sweet and to look the sun.

In Berlin center is an impressing monument for the physician, which was created 1882 with world-wide donation funds and on initiative of the citizens of Berlin medical society after drafts by Martin Gropius and Heino Schmieden by the sculptor Rudolf Leopold Siemering. The monument was originally located in the garden of the and has its current place before the clinical center area at the corner Luisen /Schumannstrasse, only Rudolf Virchow removes some steps from the also impressive monument for the founder of the modern pathology. After its destruction the monument was repaired after the Second World War. Bronze plastics appreciates Albrecht of Graefe with the split inscription:

O, a noble sky gift is the light of the eye - all natures live of each lucky creature - the plant turns joyfully to the light.

Standing and thinking marks

• 1882, monument for Berlin, draft Martin Gropius and Heino Schmieden, implemented of Rudolf Siemering
• in the ophthalmic clinic of the George August university Goettingen

Literature

• Genealogi manual of the aristocracy, aristocrat of houses B volume VII, page 106, volume 36 of the total row, C.A. strong publishing house, Limburg (Lahn) 1965,

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