Alfred Leber (1881-1954)


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Name (English): Alfred Leber
Short name: Alfred Leber
Year of birth: 1881
Year of death: 1954
Short Description: "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." - (en.wikipedia.org 06.10.2022)
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