Friedrich Alexander Hermann Pagenstecher (* 21 April 1828 in Wallau with high home at the Main, "† 31 December 1879 in Wiesbaden) was important optician and founder of the eye mental hospital in Wiesbaden.

Born as a son of a in Wallau Pagenstecher studied medicine in pouring, Heidelberg, peppering castle (here among other things with Rudolf Virchow), Paris, Zurich, London and Berlin starting from 1846. It was member of the Corps Teutonia pouring and the Corps Nassovia Heidelberg. After the graduation it opened a private practice for eye medicine to 1853.

1856 it created the eye mental hospital Wiesbaden, which it managed up to its end of life as a director.

Pagenstecher was operating surgeon of world-wide reputation, particularly in the area of the grey star, and is considered as an inventor of the operation in closed cap. The yellow developed by it found world-wide use. 1861-66 he was publisher "„of the clinical observations from the eye mental hospital to Wiesbaden "“.

Pagenstecher died in a hunt accident close of the hunting seat into Wiesbaden and at the old person cemetery in Wiesbaden was buried.

Literature

• General German biography, Bd. 25, P. 67
• German biographic encyclopedia, Bd. 7, S. 548f.
• Nassaui life pictures, Bd. 2 (1943), P. 237-243
• Albert Herrmann: Graves more famous and in the public life of become known persons on the Wiesbadener cemeteries, Wiesbaden 1928, P. 56
• Alexander Hildebrand: Haven-guesses/advises: Alexander Pagenstecher, in: Wiesbaden international 2/1978
• The inheritance of the Mattiaca. Personalities of the urban history of Wiesbaden (1992), P. 173-175

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