Career
He trained at Basel, Zurich, Lausanne, Vienna and Bern, where he received his Doctor of Medicine in 1892. He studied further in Bern under Emil Theodor Kocher and in Vienna under Ernst Fuchs. He was habilitated in ophthalmology at Basel in 1900, and became professor of ophthalmology and director of the eye clinic of the University of Bern from 1903 to 1935.
He worked on the correction of keratoconus including the use of early contact lenses.