Jaeger W
University Eye Clinic, Heidelberg, BRD.
Doc Ophthalmol. 1988 Jan-Feb;68(1-2):71-7.
Theodor Leber grew up in Heidelberg as the son of a professor of Romance languages. Initially he planned to study natural sciences. Bunsen's advice led him to medicine. During his studies he succeeded in solving a competition problem posed by Helmholtz in the medical department. A short period of practical work in the eye hospital of Knapp was unsatisfactory. In Vienna with the physiologist Carl Ludwig, he was able in 1863/64, at the age of only 24 years, to demonstrate the blood circulation of the eye by color injections into the arteries and veins. Since that time the schematic drawings of his results can be found in every textbook of ophthalmology. On the occasion of the congress of the German Ophthalmological Society in Heidelberg in 1864, Theodor Leber reported on these findings and met with immense approval. In 1864-67 he followed an invitation as coworker of Liebreich to Paris; in 1867 he became A.v. Graefe's coworker in Berlin; in 1871 he moved to Göttingen, which became the first eye clinic with a laboratory for experimental investigations. The second epoch-making discovery accomplished by Leber was the detection of the fluid exchange in the eye. These results have also been confirmed by modern methods. Therefore, Theodor Leber can be called the father of experimental ophthalmology.
西奥多·莱伯成长于海德堡，父亲是一位罗曼语教授。起初，他计划学习自然科学。在本生的建议下，他投身医学。求学期间，他成功解决了赫尔姆霍茨在医学部提出的一个竞赛问题。在克纳普眼科医院的短期实践工作不尽人意。1863/64年，年仅24岁的他在维也纳与生理学家卡尔·路德维希合作，通过向动脉和静脉注射染料，成功展示了眼部的血液循环。从那时起，他的研究结果示意图便出现在每一本眼科教材中。1864年，在海德堡召开的德国眼科学会大会上，西奥多·莱伯汇报了这些发现，并获得了极大认可。1864 - 1867年，他应利布雷希之邀前往巴黎工作；1867年，他成为柏林的A.v. 格雷费的助手；1871年，他迁至哥廷根，这里成为了第一家设有实验研究实验室的眼科诊所。莱伯的第二项具有划时代意义的发现是对眼内液体交换的检测。这些结果也已被现代方法所证实。因此，西奥多·莱伯堪称实验眼科学之父。
