Emil Paul Ernst Olaf Friedrich Krückmann (14 May 1865, in
Neukloster – 23 June 1944, in
Berlin) was a German
ophthalmologist.
He studied medicine at several German universities, receiving his doctorate from the
University of Göttingen in 1890. From 1891 to 1894 he was an assistant at the university eye clinic in
Rostock and in 1896 he obtained his
habilitation for ophthalmology. In 1901 he became an associate professor at the
University of Leipzig, and he later served as a full professor at the universities of
Königsberg (1907–12) and
Berlin (1912-38).[1]
In 1916 he co-founded the
Deutsche Blindenstudienanstalt [
de] (German Institute for the Blind).[2] Today, the Emil-Krückmann-Bücherei (a library for the blind) in
Marburg commemorates his name.[3]
Selected writings
Ueber Fremdkörpertuberculose und Fremd-körperriesenzellen, 1894 – On tuberculous foreign bodies and foreign
giant cells.
Ueber die Sensibilität der Hornhaut, 1895 – On the sensitivity of the
cornea.
Ueber eine Meningoencephalocele des Augapfels, 1898 – On a
meningoencephalocele of the eyeball.
Eine weitere Mittheilung zur Pathogenese der sogenannten Stauungspapille, 1898 – Pathogenesis of the so-called
papilledema.
Die Syphilis der Regenbogenhaut: nach Beobachtungen aus der Sattler’schen Augenklinik, 1906 – Syphilis of the
iris: according to observations at
Hubert Sattler's ophthalmological clinic.
Die Erkrankungen des Uvealtractus und des Glaskörpers, 1908 – Diseases of the
uveal tract and
vitreous humor.
Über Schießbrillen (with Berthold von Kern), 1914.
Über Kriegsblindenfürsorge, Leipzig, 1915 – War-related blindness.
Grundriss der Augenheilkunde für Studierende und praktische Ärzte (second edition, 1929) – Outline of ophthalmology.[4]