Background
Bielschowsky was born in Namslau (Namysłów), Prussian Silesia.
ophthalmologist university professor
Bielschowsky was born in Namslau (Namysłów), Prussian Silesia.
After attending the Königliches Katholisches Gymnasium of Glatz (Kłodzko), he studied medicine at the University of Breslau (Wrocław) and at the University of Heidelberg. Afterwards he studied medicine at the University of Berlin, attending the lectures of Karl Ernst Theodor Schweigger (1830-1905) and graduating in 1893. Bielschowsky subsequently studied and worked in the eye clinic at the University of Leipzig, receiving his habilitation in 1900 and becoming head physician in 1906.
While at Leipzig, he studied under Ewald Hering (1834-1918).
His specialty was physiology and pathology of the eye, particularly in regards to research of eye movement, space perception and diagnosis of oculomotor anomalies. At Heidelberg he was a student of ophthalmologist Theodor Leber (1840-1917). He received his medical license in Leipzig on March 1 of the same year.
During World War I, Bielschowsky established a hospital ward and Braille instruction for treatment of blinded soldiers.
In 1916, along with Carl Strehl (1886-1971), he founded the Verein blinder Akademiker Deutschlands (Association of Blinded Academics of Germany). In 1923 Bielschowsky was appointed chair at Breslau.
While at Breslau, Bielschowsky published Die Lähmungen der Augenmuskeln, an influential work on eye muscle disturbances. Because of his Jewish heritage and Nazi persecution, Bielschowsky was fired from his position in 1934, later emigrating to the United States (1936).
Here he became head of the Dartmouth Eye Institute at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
However, he died suddenly in 1940. Though not much history is confirmed about Bielschowsky"s family, we do know that there are living generations of the Bielschowsky family. Fred married Ingeborg Weber-Biel (1927-2015) and then was drafted to World World War II after Ingeborg gave birth to son, George Biel (1949-present).
After Fred served in the army, he and Inge had son Frank Biel (1955-present).
Scott is now married to Crystal and has a child named Sasha. Frank married Adrienne Duffy in 1988, and had twin daughters in 2000, Ashling and Kaitlin who passed at birth.
Then she gave birth to Aidan and Shannon Biel who are twins as well. Bielschowsky"s head tilt test: A test for palsy of the superior oblique muscle caused by damage to cranial nerve IV (trochlear nerve).
These are the only known members of the Bielschowsky family in the present.