Hermann Kuhnt (14 April 1850 – 31 October 1925) was a German

ophthalmologist Ophthalmology (, ) is the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and surgery of eye diseases and disorders. An ophthalmologist is a physician who undergoes subspecialty training in medical and surgical eye care. Following a ...

born in

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. He studied medicine in

Bonn Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This ...

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and

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, and following graduation worked at the anatomy institute in

Rostock Rostock (; Polabian language, Polabian: ''Roztoc''), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (), is the largest city in the German States of Germany, state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the sta ...

under

Friedrich Sigmund Merkel Friedrich Sigmund Merkel (5 April 1845 – 28 May 1919) was a leading German anatomist and histopathologist of the late 19th century. In 1875, he provided the first full description of ''Tastzellen'' (touch cells), which occur in the skin of ...

(1845–1919). Afterwards he became assistant to ophthalmologist Otto Becker (1828–1890) at the University Eye Clinic in

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; ; ) is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, fifth-largest city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, and with a population of about 163,000, of which roughly a quarter consists of studen ...

. In 1880 he moved to the

University of Jena The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The university was established in 1558 and is cou ...

, where in 1881 he was appointed professor of ophthalmology. Around 1892 he began serving as a professor at the

University of Königsberg The University of Königsberg () was the university of Königsberg in Duchy of Prussia, which was a fief of Poland. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant Reformation, Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke A ...

. From 1870 he was a member of the Corps Rhenania Bonn. Senftenberg kuhnt2

In 1899 with Julius von Michel (1843–1911), he founded the ophthalmic journal ''Zeitschrift für Augenheilkunde''. The following two eponyms are named after him: * ''Kuhnt-Junius degeneration'': Also known as disciform

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; named with Paul Junius (1871–1948). * ''Kuhnt's spaces'': Shallow

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or recesses between the

ciliary body The ciliary body is a part of the eye that includes the ciliary muscle, which controls the shape of the lens, and the ciliary epithelium, which produces the aqueous humor. The aqueous humor is produced in the non-pigmented portion of the ciliary ...

and the

Zonule of Zinn The zonule of Zinn () (Zinn's membrane, ciliary zonule) (after Johann Gottfried Zinn) is a ring of fibrous strands forming a zonule (little band) that connects the ciliary body with the crystalline lens of the eye. The Zonular fibers are viscoela ...

which open into the eye's

posterior chamber The posterior chamber is a narrow space behind the peripheral part of the iris, and in front of the suspensory ligament of the lens and the ciliary processes. The posterior chamber consists of small space directly posterior to the iris but ante ...

.
Mondofacto Dictionary

Selected publications

* ''Beitrage zur Operativen Augenheilkunde'', (1883) * ''Über die Therapie der Conjunctivitis granulosa'', (1897) * ''Über die Verwerthbarkeit der Bindehaut in der praktischen und in der operativen Augenheilkunde'', (1898) * ''Die scheibenförmige Entartung der Netzhautmitte (Degeneratio maculae luteae disciformis)'', (1926); with Paul Junius

References

Pagel: Biographical Dictionary
(translated biography)

External links

* 1925 deaths 1850 births People from Senftenberg Physicians from the Province of Brandenburg German ophthalmologists Academic staff of the University of Königsberg Academic staff of the University of Jena {{Germany-med-bio-stub