Hermann Wilbrand was a German ophthalmologist whose father and grandfather were also physicians. In 1875 he earned his doctorate at the University of Strassburg, and afterwards was an assistant to Ludwig Laqueur (1839-1909) at Strassburg and Carl Friedrich Richard Förster (1825-1902) at Breslau. Later he moved to Hamburg where he became head of the Department of Ophthalmology at Allgemeines Hospital in 1905. Wikipedia
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