page_title: Albrecht von Graefe
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Albrecht von Graefe / Background
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Denkmal für den Augenarzt „Albrecht von Graefe", ausgeführt 1882 von „Rudolf Leopold Siemering". Standpunkt: an der Charité, Berlin.
context_page_description: Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Albrecht von Gräfe, often Anglicized to Graefe, was a Prussian pioneer of German ophthalmology. Graefe was born in Finkenheerd, Brandenburg, the son of Karl Ferdinand von Graefe. He was the father of the far right politician Albrecht von Graefe.
context_section_description: At the University of Berlin, Graefe studied philosophy, logic, natural sciences and anatomy, under notable names such as Dove, H. Rose, Müller, and Schlemm, eventually obtaining his medical doctorate in 1847. He continued his studies at Prague, Paris, Vienna and London, and having devoted special attention to ophthalmology, in 1850, he began to practice as an oculist in Berlin. Here, he founded a private institution for the treatment of eyes. During the same year, he received his habilitation with the thesis Über die Wirkung der Augenmuskeln.
  In 1858 he became an associate professor of ophthalmology in Berlin, where in 1866 he was appointed a full professor. In 1870, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
  In 1862 he married Anna Knuth. The couple had three children, two of whom died in infancy.
  Graefe died in Berlin from pulmonary tuberculosis on 20 July 1870. His grave is preserved in the Protestant Friedhof II der Jerusalems- und Neuen Kirchengemeinde (Cemetery No. II of the congregations of Jerusalem's Church and New Church) in Berlin-Kreuzberg, south of Hallesches Tor.
caption: Memorial at the Charité Berlin by Rudolf Siemering
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