Hermann Pagenstecher
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Hermann Pagenstecher (September 16, 1844 - December 31, 1932) was a German ophthalmologist. He studied medicine in Berlin under Albrecht von Graefe (1828-1870), and later furthered his studies in London, Edinburgh and Paris. In 1875 he became an assistant at his older brother Alexander Pagenstecher's (1828-1879) eye clinic in Wiesbaden. Four years later he succeeded his brother as director of the clinic, and in 1890 became a professor of ophthalmology.
Pagenstecher is remembered for advancing his brother's pioneer work with intracapsular cataract extraction, which he describes in his monograph Die Operation des grauen Stars in geschlossener Kapsel. He also published an important ophthalmic work titled Atlas der pathologischen Anatomie des Augapfels (Atlas of the Pathological Anatomy of the Eyeball), which was later translated into English by neurologist William Richard Gowers (1845-1915).
