Dr. Bielschowsky Dies

DR. ALFRED BIELSCHOWSKY, professor of ophthalmology and director of the Dartmouth Eye Institute, died on January 5, following an operation in a Brooklyn, N. Y., hospital. His death at the age of 68 occurred while he was on his way back to Hanover after a series of lectures in California.

Doctor Bielschowsky was a world authority on motor anomalies of the eye, and was equally renowned as an eye surgeon. Formerly professor of ophthalmology and chief of the Eye Clinic of the University of Breslau, Germany, he came to Dartmouth in 1934 as Visiting Ophthalmologist and in the following year was appointed Visiting Lecturer in Physiological Optics. He had been professor of ophthalmology and director of the Eye Institute since 1937.

Born in a village in German Silesia on December 11, 1871, Doctor Bielschowsky studied medicine in the Universities of Breslau, Heidelberg, Berlin and Leipzig, receiving his medical degree from Berlin in 1894. From 1900 to 1906 he was docent at Leipzig, from 1906 to 1912 assistant professor and chief resident of the eye clinic of that university, and from 1912 to 1923 professor of ophthalmology and chief of the eye clinic at the University of Marburg. In 1923 he became chief of the eye clinic at the University of Breslau, from which post he came to Dartmouth in 1934. In addition to his work at Dartmouth, since 1938 he had been Associate in Ophthalmology at the Harvard Medical School.

During the World War, Doctor Bielschowsky founded at Marburg, Germany, the Educational Institute for Blind Academicians, a unique institution of higher learning for training the blind for legal, clerical, and other professions. Author of more than 100 papers on the physiology and pathology of the eye, he was internationally famous in his field. He was a member of numerous honorary medical socities and also co-editor of several ophthalmological journals in this country and abroad.

Funeral services for Doctor Bielschowsky were held in the Church of Christ, Hanover, on January 8, with burial in Hanover. He is survived by his wife, the former Frieda Johanna Blume; his daughter, Mrs. Bernhard Kugelmann of New York City; his son, Dr. Heinz Biel of New York City; a sister, Mrs. Leo Lichtwitz of New Rochelle, N. Y.; and a brother, Max Bielschowsky of Breslau, Germany.