Emil Krückmann


Emil Paul Ernst Olaf Friedrich Krückmann 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 and Berlin.
In 1916 he co-founded the Deutschen Blindenstudienanstalt. Today, the Emil-Krückmann-Bücherei in Marburg commemorates his name.

Selected writings